I was stunned to read state Sen. Ellen Roberts’ comment that the “personhood” bill was not about abortion. “Personhood” is the Republicans’ “holy grail” to ban the entire spectrum of reproductive-health care for women, which they “sincerely” believe is about abortifacients.
Many people claim to serve God. This God created everything, including women – hardwired, like most females of species, to bring successful, healthy progeny into the world.
Why do Republicans claim some divine right to play god over women’s fertility, depriving them of constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom?
Starting with the Reagan administration, politicians, the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Koch machine created the privatized-prison industry.
They created the “war on drugs” and “austerity” to throw the mentally ill into the streets.
They began hammering at women’s health care to leave 23 to 25 percent of our children in hunger. George W. Bush left Texas with 25 percent of its children malnourished.
Rick Perry promptly dropped them down the school-to-prison pipeline. Bush then added 4.7 million children nationally to the hungry. “Incarceration nation” ballooned. The Republicans are currently slashing food stamps, again.
Privatized prisons double dip financially as your tax dollars fund their profit for incarceration. They “rent” prisoners as cheap labor to corporations.
The Koch machine has spent multi-millions of dollars to ban women’s reproductive-health care.
Justices Scalia, Alito and Thomas were wined, dined, indulged and indoctrinated by ALEC and the Koch machine to go forth and force women to submit to patriarchal-religious laws concerning health care.
This is a mockery of our U.S. Constitution.
Back in the day, Jesus threw out the money changers. These days, politicians and corporations plaster Jesus flags and American flags on their tables.
It is not Jesus they serve between women’s legs. Yet, too many American Christians enter the feeding frenzy of misogyny within the Republicans’ culture of rape.
Colorado rejected “personhood” three times, with good reason.
We see women incarcerated elsewhere under Republican religious law.
Now Sen. Roberts has joined the predators. I am so sorry.
Stephanie Johnson
Durango
