The Sentinel-Record

Let the people speak

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Dear editor:

Last week’s leak of the Supreme Court draft indicating that the court will effectivel­y overturn Roe vs. Wade was hardly earth-shattering, given the politiciza­tion of the current members. It also laid bare the hypocrisy of those cheering the decision. By and large, these people who presume to know what’s best for a woman’s body and her life are the same ones who’ve been chanting “My body, my choice” for the past two years when asked to simply wear a mask in public to protect their fellow Americans, and refusing to take a vaccine to protect themselves and others from a virus that has now claimed over a million U.S. lives.

My own stance in relation to abortion has always been that unless you’ve adopted a child or raised one through foster care, you really don’t have the right to an opinion. You’re talking the talk without walking the walk.

That said, now that we’re going to have thousands of unwanted children born in low-income, low-education, single-parent households, get your checkbooks out. Someone has to pay for a future that likely includes taxpayer-funded birth, health care, education, HUD housing, food stamps, free lunch programs, and in high percentage­s, eventual incarcerat­ion. If you’re in, be prepared to be all in.

If you argue states’ rights, I’ll go along. On a statewide vote of all citizens. Not the legislatur­e. If states’ rights means what it intends — the will of the people, not the politician­s — then by all means, let Arkansans vote. If we’ve learned nothing, it’s that we don’t have the warmest knives in the butter running things at the state Capitol. And they rarely have anything outside their own self-interest and political agendas in mind. So let the people speak.

Anthony Lloyd

Hot Springs

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