A title not earned

Dear editor:

I will no longer refer to Tom Cotton, or Boozman as senators because it’s a title that must be earned. Both lost the right to bear that honorable title because they lack the integrity, honesty, morality and compassion to do so while ignoring their oaths of office to “protect and defend the Constitution” not the president and especially not their own political careers.

They want to ban all abortions, not to protect a mother’s life or out of any sense of morality, or even religious conviction, but because they want us to believe that it’s a “baby” at inception, which is fiction. Even the Catholic Church knew better so gave it the heartbeat test, which I suppose indicates “life.” When a person dies, the soul leaves the body so it makes sense that life does not begin until/unless a soul enters the physical body and no one knows when that is. “Life requires a soul” otherwise it’s just a lifeless corpse. Could be just prior to birth, or after the vehicle for the soul (human body) enters, if it so chooses. For a mere human man to assert that he knows that life begins at inception is an insult to my intelligence and to God.

He says he wants to “save the babies” but turns a blind eye to all who are this side of the mother’s womb when they are mercilessly slaughtered by what Republicans refer to as “America’s favorite gun,” which is not even true; it’s the favorite of a few, not the many. Neither has a real solution to ending the mindless slaughters of “babies” who actually are alive, but scramble to protect the weapon of choice to accomplish the most damage while ignoring the actual act and even the bullets that so damaged these children that DNA tests had to be done to identify them all. A “moment of silence” is no solution; it’s a cop-out.

As for the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court’s decision that we all have the right to keep and bear arms, tells me that SCOTUS doesn’t read the Constitution either because they keep wanting to change it themselves, which is unconstitutional. They purposely omit the first half of the one sentence amendment that states “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

When the framers were trying to get the slave states to ratify the Constitution, they changed the Second from free nation to free state to appease them due to their slave patrols, which we now know as “police.” It has been honored with National Guards in all 50 states in this country and they are “well regulated” but they leave their weapons in the armory.

Judith Zitko Hot Springs Village