Abortion policies turn politicians into untrained doctors

Why is life the most valuable if it hasn't been born yet? I don't support abortion for convenience but am against policies so strict anti-abortionists will risk a mother dying if she needs one and is denied. That is what Texas politicians are doing to Kate Cox.

When Roe v. Wade was overturned, I knew there would be situations like what Cox is experiencing in Texas. Radicals prefer to lay more suffering on the patient and risk two children growing up motherless if necessary in order to maintain their position on the issue. This is pro-life?

When my husband was ill with cancer we had to battle the insurance company for care. Insurance people made decisions that belonged to a doctor. The outcome showed listening to them would have hastened his death. Now politicians, medically untrained, usurp a doctor's job of making medical judgments for patients - judgments that can kill them. This is not pro-life, but Big Brother deciding who dies and who doesn't. That's too much political power.

Doctors train for these situations, not politicians. Yet because of politicians, doctors lose freedom to be doctors without fear of punishment. Politicians make themselves the death panels we were warned about a few years ago. This needs to be corrected. Surely they can make better policies than the life-threatening, power-grabbing ones they're choosing. We need to give doctors back their freedom to use the judgment their many years of training prepared them for.

Margaret Bartlett

Cedar Rapids