Shown who they are

For all of their posturing that they care about life, many Republican politicians regularly vote to harm life in multiple ways.

If you think Republican politicians care about life, why did many recently vote against a move to get formulas back to starving babies quicker, all the while railing that Joe Biden isn’t doing anything to solve the shortage?

If you think they care about life, why are they so ready to keep affordable health care unavailable to millions of children and families and to limit WIC and SNAP benefits that decrease the child hunger rates across the country? And why are some poised to abolish access to contraception (even to married individuals) that could greatly decrease the number of unwelcome pregnancies?

If you think they care about life, when they simply offer “thoughts and prayers” after every mass shooting, followed by zero actions to curb the access to such means of massive death from the hands of hateful boys and men, how do you rationally believe that myth?

If you think they care about life, why do so many tout “Great Replacement Theory” rhetoric that creates the very hatefulness and grievance that causes said massacres? And why did many vote against a bill condemning white supremacy and neo-Nazis?

If you think regulations don’t save lives, remember the factory women who put radioactive paint on glow-inthe-dark watch faces and who often died gruesome deaths from their exposure. (That’s just one of many reasons I appreciate many regulations. Temporarily shuttering Abbott Labs to keep tainted formula out of the mouths of babies is another.)

If you think they care about anything but consolidated power, you are sadly mistaken.

What could be more telling? They have shown us who they are. Don’t reward them with your vote! MARY REMMEL WOHLLEB

Little Rock