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A question of priorities

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To the editor:

There is a very important issue for the coming election.

The Democrats seem to be using abortion as the top reason for voting for a Democrat. That does not seem reasonable to me. Dems are even inventing stories about abortion being in danger of being outlawed in this country.

The correction of the Roe v. Wade ruling hasn’t eliminated abortion. It is still legal in the vast majority of the states and in some states like California they are expanding abortion services to accommodate other states.

Abortion is really an emergency contraceptive that affects a tiny minority of women. How can that be more important than rampant crime in our cities causing many deaths, open looting, and carjacking (600 in Minneapolis alone in the last year). Our cities are not safe and, with the defunding of the police, there is no prospect for this to change in the near future.

How can emergency contraceptives still available be more important than inflation? Our cost to live in the last year went up 9%, even more for groceries and gasoline.

How can emergency contraceptives still available be more important than Biden’s open borders? Millions of individuals are coming across the border illegally, increasing crime and costing taxpayers billions in education and support for those illegals. Times estimated the illegal immigrant economy at $20 billion, triple what it was under Trump. Illegal immigration is also the fastest-growing industry in Mexico. The cartels are enjoying billions of dollars for escorting illegals across the border while committing rape, murder and theft. They are including and funding their drug smuggling at the same time. Crime on this side of the border is making it unsafe to own property near the border.

Those are just three of the items we have received from the Democrat government now in charge in Washington D.C. It is hard for me to comprehend choosing emergency contraceptives still available over correction of these heinous issues damaging all Americans.

John Benedict

Cape Coral