Letters to the Editor: Abbott hurting kids, families and Guard

Austin American-Statesman
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Gov. Greg Abbott greets a Texas National Guard member before a press conference on the southern border in Mission, on Oct. 6, 2021.
Gov. Greg Abbott greets a Texas National Guard member before a press conference on the southern border in Mission, on Oct. 6, 2021.

By funding border policing, Abbott

hurts children, families and Guard

Re: May 4 article, "Texas allocates additional $495 million in funding for Operation Lone Star."

So Gov. Abbott is defunding the Department of Public Safety to send more money to the border. There he is, destroying families and careers by pulling National Guard away from their homes and jobs.

He would move over $200 million from Health and Human Services. We've been told they're housing children in offices and hotel rooms for lack of staff and funding.

Medical privacy is a sacred cow until it comes to a woman’s health. They are not protecting women of color but keeping them in poverty and subjecting them to the whims of white men. Again. Where is a woman’s freedom to improve her situation?

A vote for Abbott and other Republicans is a vote to return to the early 1900s. Women, get thee back to the wash tub and wood stove.

Joann Robison, Austin

Deny undocumented kids an education?

Then exempt parents from paying taxes.

Re: May 6 article, "Abbott eyes migrant education fight."

So, Gov. Abbott doesn't want to pay for the education of undocumented immigrant children because it costs too much.

I think the next step should be to let the parents of those children stop paying sales tax, gasoline tax, and property tax (directly or indirectly via rent payments) since they wouldn't be getting some of the services those taxes pay for.

Joyce Lynch, Austin

If Court overturns Roe v. Wade, 'patriots'

should be ready with contingencies

Five conservative Supreme Court justices are poised to deny women’s constitutional rights.

Previously, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denied then-president Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a hearing with more than 11 months remaining in Obama's term. Yet he shoehorned in Amy Coney Barrett, who has ties to the Federalist Society, with weeks left in Trump’s administration.

Opposed to their mindset, constitutional patriots stand for upholding Roe v. Wade. Control over our body is each American’s inalienable right. Those with awareness of the pre-Roe v. Wade world's back-alley butchery must act quickly concerning contingencies if SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade and GOP states begin legislating roadblocks in the path of women controlling their own bodies.

The Rev. Barry Abraham Zavah, Alpine

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Austin American-Statesman Letters to the Editor: May 16, 2022