Letters: David Yost a bad liar when it comes to wanting women's abortion records

Dave Yost doesn't lie well

Attorney General Dave Yost is actively pursuing the right for the state of Ohio to gain access to medical records of women who go out of state for an abortion.

He has couched this under the guise of "we need to reduce crime in our state by making sure that Ohio's laws are not violated out of state."

More: Yost, GOP AGs oppose federal effort to shield out-of-state abortion, other health records

Wow...he doesn't even lie well.

How about if we add one more ridiculous example to Yost's argument.

Let's crack down on speeders.

In Idaho, the speed limit on rural highways is 80 mph. Can we also expect the state of Ohio to download info from, say a rental car, that I used while in Idaho, determine that I drove the car at 80 mph and in doing so, violated the maximum speed limit in my hometown?

No one, repeat no one in a position of political authority should ever have access to a person's private medical records.

David Gobey, Columbus

I expect better

130 degrees in Death Valley is indeed newsworthy in this time of extreme climate change and heat. However. Was the photo of the woman wearing a fur (faux I hope) jacket, short shorts and sunglasses really and truly necessary? The impact of the entire article was weakened in my opinion.

I expect better of the AP and Dispatch.

Kathleen Rosati, Westerville

Re "Tardiness could be a real mental illness," July 24: Must we have ridiculous labels for these human flaws? Wear a watch! Set an alarm! Take responsibility.

Dave Jones, Columbus

The definition of of 'ever'

I had to smile while I was reading the July 24 article penned by Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press "Record heat paints story of warming world."

Scientists say, from radiometric dating, that the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old.

Nearly every major climate-tracking organization proclaimed June the hottest June ever.

Really? The definition of "ever" is "at any time." There were no names for months 4.5 billion years ago.

There were just seasons, like now, and nobody was keeping records at that time to know how hot, how cold, how many hurricanes, how many tornados, how many snowstorms, where the sea levels were or were not or how much of the earth was covered with water or vegetation in any particular season.

It was not until 45 B.C., a few billion years later, that calendar months were named. So how would these "major climate-tracking organizations" even know how hot the temperatures were in this season 4.5 billion years ago?

Makes one question the motive behind all this talk of climate change and "June being the hottest ever." Could it be some members of the 'major climate-tracking organizations' are aliens?

Miles C. Larrick, Dublin

Soldier needs to learn lesson

The headline read, "Soldier's release an uphill battle." Bring him home?

Hell, leave him there. He'll find that living in the Peoples' paradise worse that coming home and getting kicked out of the army. Anybody stupid enough to go to North Korea deserves what happens to them.

Charlie M. Miller, West Jefferson

We are still paying

Your July 23 article “Save money on electric bill this summer” left off one important way to do so.

Ohioans should demand that their state representatives in the legislature repeal House Bill 6 that Larry Householder's bribe money got passed. House Bill 6 has increased the electric bill for all in Ohio to subsidize two old failed nuclear power plants.

One of the nuclear power plants is not even in Ohio.

Chet Ridenour, Worthington

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Letters: David Yost a bad liar when it comes to women's abortion records