Letters to the Editor — Abortion and businesses, vaccines, Texas politics, climate change

Texas is building barriers for women

Re: “Analysts: Abortion Ban Won’t Scare Business – Despite the public outcry, the benefits of staying in Texas outweigh the burdens,” according to Saturday’s news.

While I have always valued Ray Perryman’s work, with all due respect to his analysis of the economic impact of Governor Greg Abbott’s abortion ban, I vehemently disagree, largely because Perryman is an economist, a numbers eater, not a sociologist – or a woman. Long before the abortion ban, Texas had proven itself to be one of the most misogynistic, least progressive, and “keep the little woman in her place” states in the nation.

Along with this state’s race to eradicate underserved health care from women, digging into our bodies for yet another right to life law, and denigrating women who seek government support to feed and house their families for theirs Sperm donors have suddenly disappeared, there really are no visionary business leaders would find too many barriers for women to do business here legally.

Yes, this is not a place for smart, talented women to be successful. In all honesty, I feel humiliated by the ongoing disdain for women, along with the embarrassing onslaught of stupidity that comes from our statehouse. It seems high time we put in place the term limits to remove the women hating lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate.

Alice Adams, Austin

Applause for Jeffress

Re: “Jeffress Strikes Beliefs – No Religious Reason Not To Get Shots, Says First Baptist Leader,” says the Saturday News.

As appalling as I found some statements by Robert Jeffress, I must give credit to the pastor when it is due. I warmly welcome his advice to followers that taking the COVID-19 vaccine is no religiously different from taking Tylenol or ibuprofen. Thank you, sir, for not confusing reasons with excuses and for being willing to express your position publicly. I hope the community we live in will benefit from this.

Barbara Green Stone, Far North Dallas

Paxton picks small neighborhoods

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a coward who takes on several small school districts that certainly have less funding to litigate than the big guns like Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc. Tell me how I like the smaller districts can help. I’m sending a check for their legal fund.

Cindy DeWolf, Carrollton

Don’t mess with ‘Seinfeld’

Re: “Lincoln Project aims at the governor with a game day ad – dealing with the pandemic topic ‘Abbott’s Wall’ during the UT-Rice matchup”, Saturday Metro & Business-Story.

I was enjoying Saturday’s edition of the Dallas Morning News when I was shocked and outraged by the article on the Lincoln Project and its advertisements targeting Governor Greg Abbott. No, it wasn’t that they wanted to use the ads during our sacred college football games. No, it wasn’t the Abbott bashing. No, it wasn’t the somber depiction of coffins that line the Texas border. It was worse than all of that.

It was the testimony of the unimpressed Abbott spokesman, Mark Miner, who defined the Lincoln Project supporters as “rabbits-beens” and “hacks” who “watch reruns” all day. My friends, the reruns he was referring to were Seinfeld.

Bringing the idiocracy of our government and its various adversaries into conversation with one of the greatest sitcoms of all time is a slap in the face of intelligent comedy and quite unfair given the way we deal with our government (s) on a daily basis do and have their jokes.

Andy Williams, McKinney

Write to those who work for us

If you read the letters about the madness from Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, did any of these people send the same letters to you? It is very easy to send concerns, criticisms, or even praise (if desired) online.

Republicans seem afraid of being out of control, so they lean on voter “hot points” that have some value but not the real problems. Control is what they want, not rule. It’s a shame.

Republicans used to focus on less government. As a Republican, it’s embarrassing to see these antics by Abbott and Paxton. I haven’t switched parties because I want to be sure and I am voting against them in any primaries that might include them.

Write to these people who work for us! It’s on my monthly to-do list! Go to https://gov.texas.gov/apps/contact/opinion.aspx.

Sydney Brainard, Dallas

You have to read to write

Re: “Employers want this; Colleges don’t teach it well – George Orwell understood how language can be used to manipulate, but also that teaching writing teaches thinking, ”by Thomas S. Hibbs, Friday Opinion.

Dr. Baylor University’s Hibbs wrote a great column on the needs of employers who are not taught in college. He said, “To learn to write is to learn to think, and we want our young people to learn to think.”

That’s all well and good, but thinking comes from reading! In the United States, 1 in 4 children cannot read. So they can’t think, so they can’t qualify for a job.

Rose-Mary Rumbley, Dallas / M Streets

Books provide instructions on how to write

I’ve always seen myself as a budding writer. I even published a book called Pieces of My Mind myself in 2019. I have to say it was difficult to say the least. But your comment by Hibbs was reminiscent of a book, the pages of which I almost used up with pencil notes and handling: How to Write More Effectively, Think and Speak by Rudolf Flesch. This book and Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and EB White should be viewed as a reference guide for writers of all genres and subjects.

John “Bob” Dodson, Irving

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