With everyone’s mind made up, abortion is a challenging issue for journalists: Letter from the Editor

Chris Quinn, Editor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer

When the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade leaked a few weeks ago, passions immediately ran high, in the public and in the newsroom. Everyone seemed to want to do something.Of course, we will publish stories about the Supreme Court decision and how Ohio legislators respond. And, of course, we will cover the public’s reaction to those stories.

I’m going to receive angry emails for asking these questions, I’m sure. And I’m as certain that I will get them from people on both sides of the issue. We make people angry no matter what we write about abortion because people have such strong feelings about it. People who see abortion as a Constitutional right want stories to support their position. People who see abortion as murder want stories to support that opinion.

But women were getting abortions despite the prohibition. Stories from back then make clear that women had options, in state and out of state, if they had the cash. And those without means were left to barbaric abortion choices.

This is false. It is primarily politicians who are either all or nothing.

It’s not a very challenging issue when most people support a woman’s right to choose

For the most part this was a very good article. But I must dispute the key point of abortion being a binary issue. It is not. There is a large chasm of gray between all abortions are illegal and abortion is an uninhibited right. Most of the US disputes at what point abortion 1/X

Republicans get their voters stirred up with abortion and guns and immigration so they’ll ignore the fact that they’re voting to subsidize billionaire corporations. To the detriment of the working class

Their is no two views you either believe women should be forced to birth children or you don't!!

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