Letters: America needs Biden; Pro-life means supporting women’s rights
America needs Biden
Fellow Americans, open your eyes! If the 2024 presidential election is between Biden and Trump, consider the following:
The only “meaningful” legislation passed during the Trump administration was “meaningful” only to wealthy Americans and corporations. Trump’s massive tax cuts added $1.8 trillion to the federal deficit — and his Supreme Court picks ended women’s reproductive rights (“I was able to kill Roe v. Wade”).
By contrast, legislation signed into law by Biden has resulted in record job creation! The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips Act combined to reduce the deficit, fight inflation, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing and reduce carbon emissions!
Meanwhile, Trump boasts about his great economic record. Too bad it’s the booming economy he inherited from Obama — and turned into a bust. Trump has the worst jobs record of any president since Herbert Hoover.
Trump predicted a stock market collapse under Biden. Instead, the market just hit new record highs!
Trump promised...
- better health care for all
- record infrastructure investments
- a secure border
... but accomplished none of these.
All economic indicators show that Biden’s multi-pronged approach to our economic recovery is working! As promised, he’s building our economy from the bottom up, rather than from Trump’s failed “trickle down.”
Biden restored America’s Trump-tattered international reputation and leads the world in championing democracy. Trump aligns himself with the world’s tyrants and threatens our democracy. He offers no policy ideas, only promises of vengeance on his enemies.
Clearly, America needs Biden.
Pro-life means supporting women’s rights
Opponents of reproductive choice continue to make clear they are not pro-life. Nothing illustrates that better than the boundless cruelty of Texas Republicans.
Texas AG (not MD) Ken Paxton, and the Texas Supreme Court, treated Kate Cox with shameless disregard for her life.
At 20 weeks pregnant, Cox sought to terminate her much wanted pregnancy. Her fetus suffered a chromosomal abnormality certain to result in miscarriage, stillbirth, or death within hours or days of birth.
The process for obtaining an abortion in Texas is onerous. Cox jumped through all the hoops: Her physician determined that abortion was medically necessary to preserve her health and fertility; she hired a legal team; she got her case in front of a judge who ruled that Cox qualified for a medical exemption to Texas’s restrictive abortion ban.
But Paxton appealed, saying the judge is “not medically qualified” to make that judgment and threatened legal action, including first-degree felony prosecutions for anyone involved in providing abortion care. The Texas Supreme Court stayed the decision, leaving Cox in legal limbo (ultimately ruling against abortion). With her health rapidly deteriorating, Cox traveled to another state to obtain the medical care she desperately needed.
This is not pro-life.
It’s not pro-life to force a woman — a mother of two — to complete a nonviable pregnancy that jeopardizes her life and fertility.
It’s not pro-life to deny women the right to control their own bodies.
Voters know that pro-life means supporting women’s rights.