Letter to the editor: More important issues than abortion

We all thought the abortion issue was decided long ago. I am weary of all the coverage devoted to it over the years. Every election, the subject is brought out and debated again, mainly by men who would rather make a show of power by trying to control women’s lives rather than address or take a stand on more important concerns.

If the government decides to impose control over a woman’s body and her extremely personal decisions, then I believe it should exercise control over men’s bodies and lives, as well. How about making men who are convicted rapists and child molesters, those who withhold meager child support and those who sire children by multiple partners and then abandon them be required by law to have vasectomies? That sounds fair to me.

We have two especially dangerous candidates running for office in this state. Watch the television ads, and Sen. Doug Mastriano clearly comes across as an angry wanna­be dictator intent on imposing his will. Then there is Dr. Hollywood, Mehmet Oz, who has no political experience and fluctuates on abortion depending on his audience at the time.

I believe a more important issue facing this country is what to do about couples who have more kids than they can afford and babies born into drug addiction.

Lee Ann Johnson

Hempfield