Letters to the Editor: A regional airport is the answer
The answer to transportation
demands is a regional airport
The plan to expand the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport reminds me of the MoPac toll lane project that took years to complete and still leaves traffic at a crawl.
Austin-Bergstrom is already overwhelmed and Austin will have outgrown an expansion well before it's completed. We need a forward-thinking solution to air transportation issues if we're to be a true world-class city.
The solution is a regional airport offering direct flights anywhere in the world, with adequate infrastructure to serve the region for the next 50 years. Leave Austin-Bergstrom as our close-in airport and put the new one along Texas 130, convenient to both San Antonio and Austin. If conditions don't warrant a regional airport now, they certainly will in the years it will take to build one.
Let's stop these shortsighted approaches and start implementing real solutions to Austin's long-term transportation needs.
Bill Anderson, Austin
They aren't against abortion,
they're really for forced birth
I will no longer use the words "anti abortion" to describe anyone who thinks they have the right to decide what a woman can or can't do with her own body, because that is a misnomer. What they are for is forced birth.
You are either for a woman's right to bodily autonomy, or you are for forcing her to give birth. And if you are for forced birth, then you need to own it. No more dancing around that truth.
I marched in the ’70s for a woman's right to choose because unplanned pregnancies happened and women — mothers, sisters, wives, aunts, daughters — were dying horrible deaths. This country rose up and said enough! And Roe v. Wade saved lives.
So if you forced birthers win the day, every woman who dies from a botched backstreet abortion is on you. Own it.
Melodie Greider, Dripping Springs
Women must unite and demand
right to control their own bodies
If five far-right Supreme Court justices are allowed to overturn Roe v. Wade, they should expect to reap the whirlwind.
Maybe they haven't heard the expression "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Like when a 12-year-old child is forced to carry her rapist's child to term. Or when a woman is jailed for going to the hospital during a miscarriage. Or when the mother's life is deemed less important than an unborn fetus.
There is only one solution, and that's for all American women to unite and demand their fundamental right to control their own bodies. And if their demand is not met, they can strike where it will hurt the most: the kitchen and the bedroom.
Sharon Austry, Fort Worth
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Austin American-Statesman Letters to the Editor: May 10, 2022
