Second-class citizens

I am disgusted and horrified by Gov. Asa Hutchinson who, since now he has no threat of losing an election, signed into law the demonic no-abortion bill making women second-class citizens overnight with no rights to their own bodies or their right to choose a life they want, even in cases of rape. And the Republicans have the nerve to call this good Christian values! It hurts the poor and uneducated the most. But these Bible-banging hypocrites who have the nerve to harass women at abortion clinics and never go after the men who cause these mistakes in the first place are probably the least likely to put their money, hearts and time where their mouth is and adopt someone else’s child.

I can’t believe there are brainwashed women who heinously support this cruelty against their own kind under the guise of piety. They are no better than the mothers in some Middle Eastern countries who are active participants in the mutilation of their young daughters’ genitals so that these girls may breed as many kids as their husbands force them to but can never enjoy sex. They think they are extremely piously moral too.

This whole situation, plus Republicans defunding Planned Parenthood where many poor women get contraceptives, not abortions, has made it brutally clear to me that the Republican Party hates women and its sole purpose is to get women out of the work force and back into the home to be slaves for their husbands. We have lost the right to our bodies; our right to vote is certainly not far behind.

I will never vote Republican again after this outrage. The day I support pro-life is the day every male is forced to have a vasectomy, not to be reversed without his wife’s written approval. No excuses for religious reasons. It would solved the majority of the problem, wouldn’t it?

ALLYSSA RILEY

Rogers