To the editor:

To our menfolk —

Imagine you’re sitting with your daughter, your sister, perhaps your wife, in an emergency room, and she’s bleeding. At first, its watery and light pink, but now, its red, and there’s more of it.

The doctors and nurses avoid your eyes, her eyes, the room you are in, and look away, talking about a fetus, lawyers, permission, jail. Time seems to have stopped. Nothing is being done.

This is not a bad dream. This is real.

No matter what your belief system, when it’s your kith and kin, you want someone to stop the bleeding. You want her to live.

You want her to have rapid, effective medical care.

Demand they take care of your womenfolk.

Vote YES on Amendment Four. Allow them to save her life.

M.L. Sheehan

St. James City