Letter: Women will not go back
(Hal Yeager | Alabama Governor's Office | AP) This photograph released by the state shows Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signing a bill that virtually outlaws abortion in the state on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. Republicans who support the measure hope challenges to the law will be used by conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision which legalized abortion nationwide.
I call upon all the women of Utah. It is the right of each woman to have safe, legal abortions as part of health care. Going back before Roe vs. Wade, when women died from an abortion in large numbers, is unconscionable.
There must be women who do not want the federal or the state government to be ruling the health care of a woman's body. The Republicans’ direction is once again overreaching and destroying women's health care and against the Affordable Care Act, which provides the insurance for pre-existing conditions is now writing off a safe abortion.
This is what Utah is getting from the elected officials both state and on a federal government level. Women can get out and vote and change it.
The current Republicans, both state and federal, need to be voted out of office. New voices must be heard my hope is that women will step up and run for elected offices on all levels.
Holly A. Carlin, Park City
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