Daniels, Republicans don’t care about womenI was gratified to see Rich ...

Daniels, Republicans don't care about women

I was gratified to see Rich James' commentary about Mitch Daniels' disgraceful decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Daniels has posited himself as a moderate, but he is the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing.

Besides the unplanned pregnancies that likely will result from women being unable to afford contraception, Indiana is likely to see a rise in HIV, a disease for which Planned Parenthood tests in its clinics. Recent news reports noted that scientists have established that early treatment of HIV can prevent the spread of the disease. Many more women and men will not be able to afford or easily find testing for HIV, thanks to Daniels' decision.

If you go to Planned Parenthood's website, you find an easy-to-use map that shows where you can go to a clinic to get a variety of services, most of them focused on preventive health care.

If you go to the state's website, you are faced with a dizzying series of forms and terms and little concrete information on where you can go for services, not to mention the system assumes that low-income women and men have access to the Internet in the first place.

As Gary is closing its main library due to Draconian budget cuts by the state, more low-income residents will have trouble even accessing information.

Daniels and Republicans clearly do not care about women or, for that matter, mothers. As a mother of four, I am dismayed that cynical political motives have been the basis for a law that will hurt women and mothers.

You can be assured that Cheri Daniels and the wives and daughters of the Republicans in the Legislature who passed this law will continue to have access to contraception, prenatal health care, maternal health care and, yes, abortion if they need it.

Susan Eleuterio

Highland

Planned Parenthood involved in genocide

I found it ironic that Post-Tribune columnist Rich James used the religious metaphor of "selling his soul" referring to Gov. Mitch Daniels in signing legislation cutting off state funding for an abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

Many Christians feel just the opposite — that those who support the killing of unborn babies for the convenience of prospective parents or society are, in fact, the ones who are "selling their souls."

I'm not sure how leftist James and his purported empathy for the poor and minorities reconciles his allegiance to Planned Parenthood and abortion with the genocide that is taking place in the black community in the United States.

Black women make up 13 percent of the female population, yet 36 percent of all abortions involve black women. The number is even more astonishing in big cities like New York, where 57 percent of black pregnancies end in abortion.

It seems the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, is seeing her utopian dream come true in the 21st century. What the KKK and neo-Nazis failed to do is being accomplished through the auspices of abortion and, like Sanger, they are extolling its "virtues."

All this reminds me of the biblical quote in Isaiah 5:20: "What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light dark."

Gary Ziolkowski

Crown Point

Some won't admit truth about 'Meals'

James Donovan, don't hold your breath for someone like Paul Landgrebe to come and find out the truth about Meals on Wheels. They spend their time watching Fox Noise and Mush Limbaugh spewing their venom.

They don't care if it's true or not. If they say it often enough, people who can't think for themselves believe it.

Progressives are called socialists, communists, Nazis and other names.

However, Fox Noise has taken a page out of Hitler's playbook and keeps telling lies until people believe them. A couple examples: Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not America. Obama had death panels for the elderly. Oh, well, I guess the people who believe this nonsense aren't smart enough to know that Hawaii is a state.

Roger Morris

Chesterton

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