Protect women’s rights, bodies

Regarding The Washington Post editorial entitled, “Needy immigrants need not apply”, although I appreciate your big hearted approach, I don’t know where you people think the money comes from to pay for all of these services for immigrants.

That’s the right thing to do if you have the means to do it. However, basically, our children and grandchildren will fund these expenses along with the other expenses for entitlements, etc. which our generation has burdened them with.

Have you forgotten that as a country we are already over $21 trillion in debt with unfunded liabilities, according to Forbes, of $210 trillion dollars? We have no business bringing in needy immigrants until and unless we get our financial house in order.

Unsafe abortion remains a serious threat to the health and lives of women around the world. On International Safe Abortion Day, Sept. 28, we took a stand for the 31,000 women who die every year from unsafe abortion complications, nearly all in developing countries.

In January 2017, Trump’s first act as president was to impose his rapidly expanded version of the Global Gag Rule. By banning health care providers that receive US. aid from even discussing abortion, Trump is endangering the lives of women and girls in the poorest parts of the world.

Let’s ring the alarm on Trump’s deadly policy and repeal it for good. In Congress, Jared Polis has already cosponsored the Global HER Act, which would permanently end Trump’s dangerous Global Gag Rule and protect women and families everywhere. A recent oped in The Post unfairly went after Polis, after he said electing his opponent would mean an increase in women’s mortality. The author said that the next governor of Colorado should put women first.

But Polis has already proven that he will. This November, we should hold all candidates for office to that same standard.