I am attempting to get my mind around how legislators can justify the laws that they pass. For starters, they rejoiced when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade because life is so precious while in the womb.
They are the same politicians who relax firearms regulations, while deaths from guns outrank car crashes and cancer, which are also top causes of death among children ages one to 17.
These same politicians have just voted to gut Medicaid and SNAP, legislation that provides health care and food for the neediest among us.
If I, as a mother, refused to feed my children and they died as a result, I would be sent to jail for murdering my children.
So, why aren’t members of Congress who vote to remove health care and food assistance to the most vulnerable citizens in our nation arrested? And are these people the brightest among us?
— Patricia Hollinger, Westminster
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