To the Editor:

My sympathies, Martin. Sometimes older people view everything from the rosy nostalgia of youth, and anything inconsistent with it seems aberrant. Everything was better back then, the present is a catastrophe, the future hell. The human condition has always been one of challenge. I understand why the DNConvention traumatized you. It was an optimistic, joyful celebration of our American Freedoms going forward, as opposed to the “American carnage” of Trump.

The “Reproductive Rights” section of P/2025 reenforces that overturning Roe reflects the Far-Right position that women are not to be trusted to responsibly control their own reproductive functions. Even doctors are not considered qualified to assist in reproductive choices or emergencies. Someone is responsible for a pregnancy, and to MAGA, it must be the government. This is not Freedom.

Numerous horrifying cases of raped women and children, women with ectopic pregnancies, or spontaneous abortion, being denied care until the woman is near death’s door, or can reach another state, are legion. Criminalization of assistance is common in red states. VP nominee Vance has said out loud what many Republicans think: feminism has ruined America, and we need to get back to Old Testament authority. “Covenant marriage” should be endured, even if violent. Pregnancy from rape is an “inconvenience.” Childless women are “cat ladies” (and presumably Democrats) who want everyone to be as “miserable” as they are in society, and post-menopausal women are good for only one thing: babysitting. JD, a woman with a cat is anything but miserable. He knows little about cats, zayroh about women. But he mirrors P/2025.

P/2025 vows “to remove the terms abortion, reproductive health, and reproductive rights from every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation and piece of legislation that exists” so that even the language of reproduction is forbidden. It proposes eliminating condoms from Health Resources & Service Administration guidelines because they are “not women’s preventative service.” Women are culpable for their pregnancies, consensual or not, and legislation will ensure they can do nothing to prevent it, with contraception or condoms, or remedy it to claim their own lives. This is not Freedom.
The1873 Comstock Act will be revived so that mail-order abortifacients (mifepristone) or contraception will be considered “lewd and pornographic.” House Speaker Mike Johnson has called homosexuality “pornography,” and pornography will be outlawed. A State representative deemed transgenderism human “filth.” Books with sexual references, especially to “errant or excessive sexuality” will be banned. A Florida school pulled images of Michelangelo’s David because some parents considered it pornographic. This is what P/2025 calls “freedom.” This is not Freedom.

Many others of us believe Freedom is the right to live your own life without needless harm to others.

• You don’t want an abortion, don’t have one.
• You don’t want to use a condom, don’t, but make certain it’s consensual, and be prepared for the result.
• You don’t want to use a mail-order prescription for a chemical abortion or contraception, don’t.
• You don’t want to view books with sexual content, or don’t want your kids to do so, don’t.
• You don’t want your kids to learn actual history, don’t impose ignorance on our kids, too.
•You think Michelangelo’s David is pornographic. There are no words.

Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca.