Warning! Two candidates for our Colorado Assembly have stated they will ignore 51% of their constituency, the women and girls of HD59 and SD6. They are elderly males. They are Clark Craig and Cleave Simpson.
Craig states he is happy that Roe was reversed and Simpson adds that “The State” decides. Women losing their freedoms? No big deal. But the future? Their views default to “I’m fine that women and girls had this freedom taken from them.”
Emergency room physicians know best how to treat crashing blood pressure, 80/45 with critical hypoxic hematocrits of 6 instead of a healthier 13. But now, physicians go to prison for quick, lifesaving action. You know that saying, “white as a ghost and cold as ice”? That was my 26-year-old hemorrhaging patient with a lethal miscarriage.
We got her into surgery immediately, hung three units of blood in the rapid infuser. No time to judge if it was rape or incest.
We not only saved her life, but we saved her uterus too. We wanted her to live to be a new mother someday. That's how we do it in Colorado, but not in Texas, Oklahoma or 39 other states as of today.
I fear things could get much worse here. Will Craig and Simpson be happy if “The State” bans mifepristone or birth control next?
I'll be voting for Katie Stewart and Vivian Smotherman for HD59 and SD6 because they resist forced pregnancy and will protect all women and girls of Southwest Colorado.
Barbara J. Day
Durango
