Campbell may be surprised to know
This may come as news to Donna Campbell, my state senator and Big Brother-government advocate, who shoved through midnight passage of restrictions on abortion in Texas despite vocal opposition. Abortions already are safer than childbirth in this state and there is zero evidence new laws, ginned up during an unneeded taxpayer-funded special session, were necessary.
Also apparently coming news to her: Women are intelligent and do not make lightly the decision to have a child or seek abortion. We are smart enough to decide and don’t need her brand of dogma foisted on us as care and concern for our safety.
What won’t come as news to her, if she’s been reading her email, visitor logs and looking about the Capitol these past several weeks, is women are furious at intrusion on a Constitutionally granted right.
Informed voters know that to make abortion rarer, we’ll have to work to vote privacy-bashing government zealots like Donna Campbell out. In her place, we’ll elect reasoned moderates who will support reproductive health education teaching in school, wide and easy access to birth control, and increased rights to privacy protection.
On the bright side of this dark day for women, Campbell and other like-minded legislators have kicked a hornet’s nest. Women are awake and engaged. We are eager to work for and elect people concerned about our issues (education, environment, health, families, and workplace). For that, I say thank you.
Sara Shannon
Buda, TX
