Los Angeles Times

Now the GOP is pro-choice?

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Re “Vaccine passports draw GOP opposition,” April 5

As I read the article about GOP opposition to a vaccine passport, my blood began to boil. Republican­s are portraying it as a “heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices.”

Imagine being a woman. Our uteruses are controlled in many states, as are our “private health choices.” And guess what? Pregnancy is not a communicab­le disease, unlike COVID-19.

While I’m not sure I support requiring the use of vaccine passports, I’m very sure I support a woman’s right to privacy in her own healthcare choices. Patricia Kattus

Encinitas

There’s no need to get in a tizzy over vaccine passports. Everybody is issued an official vaccinatio­n record card; just take a picture of it with your phone.

I took it to the next level and sent an image of my shot card to a custom T-shirt company, so now I don’t even have to get my phone out. Sure, it cost me $25, but if wearing my shot record on my chest gives Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) a case of the vapors, it’s worth every cent.

Jamo Jackson Perris

Because at some point we will reach herd immunity, vaccinatio­n passports will no longer be necessary, so we can set a definite expiration date for their use, right?

I suspect there will never be an expiration date.

There are a multitude of medical procedures and tests that can be “encouraged” through passports. They can be added one by one, each such a tiny, tiny imposition, with no foreseeabl­e end. Ray Hogenson

Sun Valley

GOP legislator­s want less government involvemen­t in our lives, so they oppose vaccinatio­n passports, increased banking regulation­s and gun control.

But, they do want to legislate who gets to use gender-specific bathrooms or play gender-specific sports. They want to limit voting access, birth control and abortion.

Perhaps someone can provide me with the GOP rulebook, because I am confused.

Wendy Winter Altadena

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