Make our own choices

I read French Hill’s attempt to explain his malicious votes on health care with great interest and just a tad bit of amusement.

Those of us who have made efforts to talk with him about matters of concern to us are all too aware that he is highly skilled at hunkering down in his bunker or hidey holes in order to avoid all the peasants, disabled citizens, elderly and unruly women who reside in his district.

If Mr. Hill had made himself available to constituents in the 2nd Congressional District on a regular basis in his office, town-hall meetings, visits out into the district and other gatherings of ordinary voters instead of speaking to us through bankers, chambers of commerce, his staff and corporations, perhaps he wouldn’t have felt it necessary to address us through a public letter to the editor.

Most of us know how harmful his votes have been to all of us. One phrase in his letter was of particular interest to pro-choice voters such as I am. He wrote, “I voted to put health decisions back in the hands of patients and their doctors.”

Really? Can we interpret this to mean that Mr. Hill now supports a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and that he will do everything within his power to restore funds to Planned Parenthood?

I, for one, am ready for a change. LEE JONES Little Rock