What are we doing regarding Greenland?

Dear editor:

The rights of men don’t change when you cross state lines. The rights of women do. That’s a real problem. I am ecstatic about the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion. Women’s lives will be saved. 

There are so many stories of women being denied care and dying in our nation. The one that gets to me is Tierra Walker. She died of preeclampsia; her death was completely preventable. The 37-year-old mother was suffering from frequent seizures, blood clots and diabetes. Yet not one of the 90 — yes, that’s right, 90 — doctors involved in her care mentioned abortion. 

This is what the Freedom Caucus has in store for women of Wyoming. Don’t believe me? The Casper paper reported that the new state insurance plan will not cover abortions even to save the mother’s life. What happened to those exceptions? It’s the first step. Watch out, ladies and the men who love us, they are coming for your rights. 

Speaking of insurance, and the Bear plan, what can I say except it brings back preexisting conditions ineligibility — something I thought I would not see ever again. Leave it up to the Republicans to bring that insurance monster back. 

As for the nation, what in the holy sandhill are we doing? Greenland, it’s not ours. We sound like Russia. They’ll be under our protection. They will be safer, said Putin to Ukraine and Trump to Greenland. Nobody wants this. According to Steven Miller, we have the right to take it because we are all powerful. No, we don’t, and that’s how wars start. As for buying it, where are we going to get the money? What programs will he cut? Social Security? 

Venezuela, nobody is defending Maduro, but are we really going to put our most valuable asset, our young people, on the ground so oil executive can get richer and hurt Wyoming’s oil economy? It was never about the drugs, or he wouldn’t have pardoned the ex-Honduras president of the very same charge that he is charging Maduro, and he has pretty much said it is the oil.  The opposition leader presented her Nobel Peace Prize, and he took it, so petty, and now he likes her. 

The agricultural secretary is now recommending a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and something else for $3. I don’t know where she is shopping.

One last thing. Since we live in the age of mass shooters, one incident stood out to me. The people interviewed said the young people knew what to do. It was the older people who were lost. Maybe our towns could do a class for the older people. Just a thought. 

Respectfully 

Lynn Meier, 

Basin