To the Editor:
The festering anger I have felt throughout this Republican campaign season has now boiled over. I am in full outrage mode. This is not the first time Donald Trump’s comments have sparked controversy, nor, sadly, will it be the last.
But calling for women to be “punished” for exercising our right to make our own reproductive decisions highlights exactly what I have found so troubling about the discourse on the Republican side (and it is not just Mr. Trump): men deciding women’s issues, as if we are just too weak to stand up for ourselves.
As if Donald Trump or any of the rest of them should have any say in this matter.
JANE CARLIN
Stamford, Conn.
Note from KBJ: The fetus could not be reached for comment.
Note 2 from KBJ: I like the writer's logic. Guns are a men's issue, so women should have no say in the matter. War and peace are men's issues, so women should have no say in the matter. Competition is a men's issue, so women should have no say in economic matters. Has it occurred to the letter writer that half the babies aborted are female? Has it occurred to her that men can be concerned about protecting the vulnerable?
