Abortion Issue

Regarding “GOP Governors Pondering a Future Suddenly Complicated by Abortion” (Nov. 14).

We have only seen the tip of the iceberg as far as the once-discredited matter of “Single-Issue Voting” is concerned. As a 58-year-old, lifelong Republican woman, I don’t need and will never need an abortion, but I will vote for the candidate who will speak for the American women who do.

The absurdity of a GOP pledged to a war on poverty, while commanding women to produce more unwanted babies, is clear proof that they don’t understand the dynamics of poverty. We will be reminded again and again that we must vote for the larger issues, not get hung up on a single one. Well, freedom of choice is the larger issue. If we lose that, what difference do the others make?

As for the Pro-Life minister who said that women have the choice of “not going to bed with a man,” who does he think he’s kidding? Women learn early in life that in order to keep the peace, they must give up control of their bodies. And now, to contemplate a return to a legislation of this order of things is unthinkable.

CAROL SECOY

Huntington Beach