opinion

Letter: Mitch, you’re a coward on abortion

Dear Senator McConnell, your article Monday in The Enquirer (“Vote set to ban abortion after 20 weeks”) is, at best, an extremely feeble effort to deflect your refusal to even vote on defunding the butchers at Planned Parenthood of the $500 million in federal funds they currently receive. This is typical compromise and cowardice from you and your fellow Republicans.

Planned Parenthood is the ultimate oxymoron. There is not much parenthood going on there, just lots of baby butchering and selling of the body parts. Allowing Planned Parenthood to continue to receive our tax dollars based on some “20 week elective abortion standard of pain” is not only lame, it is immoral. If you truly value life, as you state in your article, then you will stop funding this organization immediately.

You have a majority in the Senate, but whine that you need a super majority and the presidency. As Democratic Senate majority leader, Harry Reid passed Obamacare with a simple majority and far less than majority support from the general public. You cower and hide when the president even threatens a veto. You think that being accused of “shutting down the government” is a horrible thing. Many of us think that shutting down huge portions of the federal government on a permanent basis would be a positive achievement. Your career could use a few of these!

As far as I can tell, your only accomplishments since you have been in the Senate are “accumulating” $25 million-plus in net worth and allowing the progressive Democrats to beat you into submission at every opportunity. In addition to this, you have demonstrated that you have no will to fight and win, nor do you have any core principles that cannot be compromised.

You should do us a favor and resign. Perhaps this will allow someone who has a solid moral core, a fighting spirit and respect for the Constitution, the opportunity to lead the Senate.

Charles Nieman, Florence