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To the Editor,
According to the Jan. 25 edition of the Dallas News, there have been 26.313 forced-birth rape victims in Texas since that state's total abortion ban has been enacted.
Remember in 2021, when Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to eliminate rapists from the streets of Texas after intentionally excluding exceptions for victims of rape and incest? (Associated Press, USA Today, Business Inside and Mother Jones.) Either the governor of Texas was misinformed, an incompetent leader, a jester or, well, just a liar.
Where will all of the children go? Republicans tell us "the evangelicals will step up to the orphan crisis and adopt these babies. Which babies? The wholly formed, mentally intact, pleasant of features and of non-poisoned blood? What of the deformed, disabled, mentally ill, produces of rape or incest and drug-addicted babies?
I was unable to find on the internet (strange) the factual percentage breakdown of the adopted and unabopted. But the question remains, where goes the unadopted?
America is fortunate to have a stellar foster care system. I admire every worker and every foster family in the nation. Unfortunately, foster parenting is declining. Some states have seen a 61 percent decline. Between 2012 and 2022, children in the foster care system increased by 57 percent, as foster parenting declined.
Group homes (five clients per home): I have a very special relative in a group home. She lives a life of safety, care, nutrition, supervision and activities, and at one point had a job. This child-woman is blessed.
Juvenile group homes (made up up of 10? Or of 12?): Obviously, they are better than their parental homes.
State mental institutions? Thank you doctors, nurses and staff for your services.
Orphanages: Where are they? Tucked away in rural areas -- don't let them call them group homes. Many, many children equals orphanages.
Personally, I would not get an abortion, but I so believe in the right of women to control their own bodies and make their own choices. Judge not, right?
Look at it this way: If Republicans want to deny the right of a woman's mastery of her own body, then support free birth control -- but they don't, nor will they.
Don't be fooled -- whether it's the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1950s, 1960s or 1970s, rich girls get abortions no matter what the law is.
Vote for women's rights -- vote for democracy.
Diana Kim Gagich
Wellsburg