Let the girl and her physician resolve
Re: “Professional-choice missteps scared away voters,” by Joshua Whitfield, Nov. 15 Opinion.
Whitfield was fairly harsh on pro-choice voters, implying that the motion as a complete was, in his view, “politicized hedonism.” He spoke of a regime that “fortunately kills the unborn.” That may be a very broad sentence.
For a lot of pro-choice Catholics, myself included, I reject that judgment. For many people, reproductive rights imply the appropriate to well being care that might embody an abortion beneath sure circumstances. If a girl's life is in peril, if a fetus shouldn’t be viable or has already died inside her physique, I feel that girl ought to have the ability to make that call solely together with her physician. This isn’t the duty of the federal government.
What I imply is that it may be morally argued that, with out these extraordinarily tough conditions, abortion is fallacious. As a Catholic priest, I suppose you’d. Nevertheless, I might additionally disagree with that. Nobody is aware of the scenario of the pregnant girl considering abortion.
Essentially, that’s between her and God. No one else.
Mary Lou Cox, Allen
A mouth stuffed with cavities
Florida Surgeon Basic Dr. Joseph Ladapo suggested his state governments to cease including fluoride to the water provide. This helps Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s declare that we must always not have fluoride in our water. I don't know the premise of Kennedy's concern about this, and I don't care.
What I do know is that after I moved to Hawaii at age 15, I didn't have a single cavity. The water there was not fluoridated on the time, and though my oral hygiene didn’t change, inside three years I had at the least one small cavity in 18 of my enamel.
Was it simply going from a spot the place there was fluoride within the water to at least one that didn't? I don't know, however I’ve to suppose it performed a giant function in my cavity-ridden mouth.
Kennedy, along with his baseless theories on many points of well being, is harmful to the well-being of our nation if he’s confirmed as Secretary of Well being and Human Companies. We deserve higher.
Susan Giardina, Allen
Downplaying Trump's victory
Re: “Trump's victory was not overwhelming; their margins are small by historic requirements, even within the 2000 election,” Tuesday information.
Watching one other PolitiFact assessment of President-elect Donald Trump, readers can't assist however marvel: The place is the steadiness? What's your level? Why permit PolitiFact to downplay not solely the president-elect's victory but additionally alter different Republican victories within the article?
Give the brand new administration a good probability. Cease minimizing victory. In reality, a robust majority in our nation desires to see a stronger economic system, decrease meals costs, vitality independence, safer neighborhoods, and a safe border.
Dallas readers proceed to deserve honest and balanced reporting. PolitiFact shouldn’t be the conduit.
Mel Cox, Dallas
Limits to huddled plenty
Re: “The Promise of Freedom Unfulfilled,” by John Erickson, Monday Letters.
Erickson says, “The promise made to the huddled plenty longing to breathe free is now not obtainable… We will now not hold our promise.” Why can't we? Is there a sound purpose?
Let's have a look at some statistics: In 1886, there have been 1.5 billion folks on this planet and 50,189,209 folks within the US. Now there are eight.2 billion folks on this planet and 335,893,238 folks within the US. The query en: Of the eight billion folks in different nations, what number of want to come to our nation? What number of do you suppose we may deal with? The promise of restricted, authorized entry continues to be there. There must be a restrict.
John Inexperienced, Hickory Creek
Pay for well being care
Re: “Double dose of well being shock,” by Dave Lieber, Sunday Metro column.
As a retired physician, healthcare coverage nerd, and most cancers affected person with nice care and help from household and associates, I'm so glad The Watchdog instructed us a few profitable decision for a most cancers affected person who discovered alternative insurance coverage when their provider was going out of enterprise.
With the election, immigration, inflation, Ukraine, the Center East, and so forth., well being care points have been pushed to the again of conservatives' considerations after making an attempt unsuccessfully to finish Obamacare. I take no pleasure in informing the general public that the privatization of well being care, well being care dominated by for-profit insurance coverage corporations, is a catastrophe that’s solely going to worsen.
We may have high quality care for everybody at an inexpensive price, nevertheless it doesn't at the moment appear to be on the radar of many policymakers. Well being care by employment was purported to be a brief strategy throughout the Truman administration to handle inflation, together with a wage worth freeze.
That is Success is Medicare for all and personal insurance coverage for many who can afford it. Medicare executed proper and Social Safety are simply two examples of higher authorities for staff and retirees.
Jerry Frankel, Plano
Discredit our colleges
My concern about public faculty lecturers taking on my household's job of instructing Bible tales to our youngsters is at the least twofold. Number one is that almost all will not be certified by apply, perception or training. Quantity 2 is that archetypal tales will probably be additional decreased to only one other cartoon sequence in youngsters's minds.
Maybe this curriculum is a consequence of Christians not doing a great job of residing out the message of the tales. If this curriculum is so good, why does the state authorities need to bribe folks with cash to make use of it? Discrediting our public colleges on this means shouldn’t be Christian conduct, however fairly the alternative.
Paula Craig, Dallas/Oak Cliff
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