Thanks to our increasingly infamous senator, Mike Lee, I now understand better why we must defund Planned Parenthood.
In his otherworldly speech against the Green New Deal, he explained that we need more people to fall in love and increase our population so that they, not us, can solve the problems we refuse to face. How can that happen if Planned Parenthood is funded, right?
Lee’s speech exemplifies some of the outcomes of our defunded public education system in Utah, where he and others argue against teaching the science of climate change and evolution, the value of decent standards in education and, of course, against 21st century sex education.
While there are many problems with the senator’s argument, there is one glaring piece of counter evidence: Lee represents Utah, where we have a higher than the national average birth rate and are still unable to solve in any significant way our problems with air and water quality.
We march “forward” in his model, degrading our environment with depleted uranium, shrinking public lands and selling drilling and mining rights at the expense of our environment.
Clearly, the senator does not want to solve any of these problems because he insists on doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. And we, the people of Utah, believe him and continue to vote for him.
Time for a change?
Christina Gringeri, Salt Lake City