Thurmond and ‘Lovely Ladies’

I agree with columnist Colman McCarthy’s assessment of Molly Yard (“A Humorless and Arrogant Overreaction,” Commentary, Sept. 28) in the context of her being humorless and sensitive toward the issue of women’s reproductive rights. There’s nothing laughable about a gaggle of men, from the Pope to the President, legislating control over women’s reproductive systems.

As for “fetal rights,” whatever rights there may be are conferred by the woman carrying the fetus and not the other way around. Otherwise women might as well be cattle, herded at will, forced to become incubation factories.

FRED J. HERMON, Santa Ana