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Local officials must
move to protect abortion
Overturning Roe v. Wade and banning legal abortions is directly killing women.
Historically, we know that the number of abortions does not change regardless of whether or not abortions are legal. What does change is the number of women who suffer and die because they don’t have access to safe, legal abortion services. If my elected officials don’t want to have the blood of thousands on their hands they need to act now. We must protect the fundamental rights of reproductive and bodily autonomy. We cannot rest until Roe v. Wade is codified and access to abortions is protected on a federal scale.
It’s time for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Alex Padilla to work and show their constituents the difference that can be made in matters that directly affect them.
Samuel Hirsch
Sunnyvale
Men must share in
loss of abortion rights
How to lessen unwanted pregnancies:
A $10,000 bounty on men suspected of having unprotected sex.
Legislation that provides automatic child support from the father to the mother forced to have an unwanted pregnancy.
Legislation that provides government support to a family forced to have an unwanted pregnancy.
If a woman is made a criminal for an abortion, then the man is also charged for abetting the unwanted pregnancy.
Patricia Andrews
San Jose
San Mateo needs
Sheriff’s Office change
In San Mateo County as in Santa Clara County, we are saddled with an ethically challenged sheriff, and it is time for a change. This is why I support Capt.Christina Corpus for sheriff.
With 20 years in the Sheriff’s Office, she will bring ethics and transparency. She has been endorsed by the Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood, labor unions, elected officials and community leaders. It is also time for the first female sheriff in the county – and the first Latina sheriff in California.
Our current sheriff, Carlos Bolanos, was apprehended during an FBI raid at an illegal brothel which was sex trafficking minor girls near Las Vegas. (Operation Dollhouse). His previous campaign manager, Barbara Bonilla, was indicted on seven felony counts of embezzlement when she ran the Sheriff’s Activity League. Most recently, the incumbent backed out of a candidate forum with 130 signups he had already agreed to, forcing its cancellation.
Nancy Goodban
Redwood City
DMV ill-suited to get
out taxpayer money
Are you kidding me? Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the Department of Motor Vehicles to distribute whatever money he loves to give out. He claims it will get out faster than with the Franchise Tax Board.
With all due respect, is he not aware of the past issues with DMV, which I doubt have gotten materially better? If not, he is a bit clueless. My experience with the FTB for years has been nothing but positive with refunds normally issued within two weeks of my tax return submission.
Killian Byrne
San Jose
Conflict in cities’ policies
raise home prices
Jonathan Lansner’s research (“Hiring outpaces building homes,” Page E1, May 1) reveals the true cause of our outlandishly high housing costs. California municipal governments are permitting construction of far more job sites than they permit for the number of housing units required for those workers.
Yet, we are using government funding in an attempt to build affordable housing because too many people live in desperation on the streets and too many essential but lower paid workers (e.g., teachers) are moving away. The growth of high tech here is causing amazing prosperity for the few, but great financial pain for everyone else. Cities such as San Jose are permitting more office construction because they need the tax revenue of these companies in order to pay for the services expected by residents (police, roads, libraries, etc.).
This is a tremendous conflict of policy aims. Help.
Susan Price-Jang
San Jose
Source: www.mercurynews.com