June 27, 2022
Dear editor;
Donald Trump said all along that if elected he would appoint justices who would overturn Roe v Wade, to take away women’s reproductive rights and turn those rights over to the legislative powers of each state, many of which already had trigger laws banning abortion immediately, even for those in waiting rooms at 11 a.m. that morning.
The three justices that Mitch McConnell helped Trump to get appointed lied about using precedent to uphold Roe v Wade: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Friday, June 24, five men and one “Handmaid’s Tale” woman of the Supreme Court made the choice for millions of women to lose the fundamental rights of their bodies. Justice Clarence Thomas has cross hairs on more destruction for gay marriage, contraception, and no protection for women and girls young as 13 and younger pregnant from rape or incest.
Thursday, June 23, the Supreme Court let loose any one going in public with a concealed gun allowed to kill the very children whose lives one party, in particular, claim to care enough about to force a woman or child to have them, but the minute they are born they have no time or money for them. They no longer have any value.
Republicans have forecast what they’ll do if they take control of the both the U.S. House and Senate. Maya Angelou famously said that when people show you who they are and tell you what they’ll do, believe them the first time. Trump said he would put justices on the Court who would overturn Roe v Wade. Republicans want to twilight Social Security and Medicare; twilight, such a gentle word for destruction of people such as me, widowed and dependent on both.
Many Republicans say January 6 never happened and they would shut down that committee first thing, so they would not face the responsibility of their wrong-doing.
It’s time to make your stand: Stand for democracy and vote Democratic, including at the State level, or we’re all doomed to succumb to the wrong side of power.
Judy Siedlecki, Oswego