Letters to the Editor: The Uterus Police want to rule women’s lives

Uterus Police

Women of child-bearing age need to recognize that the Frankfort Uterus Police (FUP) now manage your body. You simply don’t. The FUP thinks that they know what’s best for you. You simply don’t. The FUP does not listen or answer to anyone, logic, or common sense. They think that they are the only way, the truth and the light. You are their property, and they are currently are in firm control of all women of childbearing age in Kentucky. You can, however, activate and celebrate your freedom from this bondage. If you don’t like FUP running your life or the life of your friends, the only way you can get them out of your body is to “register to vote”, and “then definitely vote” the FUP out of business on November 8. You know who they are, and they cannot be trusted to help free women. Enlist your friends in this battle then contribute to and vote for sane candidates who do not like the repression and the servitude that the FUP represents. Women can bring Kentucky out of the dark ages. It is not a lost cause.

Gene Lockhart, Lexington

Plumbing and Politics

Thank you, GOP Senators in Frankfort! Not only have you managed to (not) discuss gun violence in schools, but you turned it into “Good News” for Kentucky’s voters by showing how you are spending our money in NOT solving the obvious problem.

Picture an overflowing bathtub. Then picture the GOP intelligentsia rushing in to solve the problem. How? By spending OUR money by buying towels and mops. It appears that they don’t consider TURNING OFF THE FAUCET!

It doesn’t matter that the great majority of Americans want tougher gun laws to help turn off that faucet. You three (Reps. Mike Wilson, Max Wise, and Danny Carroll) just want to hew to the NRA line to get the NRA money. You must think that Kentucky voters are unbelievably stupid, or you three are. I leave readers to decide for themselves.

Ester Murphy, Lexington

Title IX

Even though the passage of Title IX on June 23, 1972, containing only 37 words, apparently opened many previously closed doors of opportunities for women in numerous fields of academic endeavors, none are so visible as those in the competitive arenas of women’s sports. To Mark Story’s list of notable moments in the history of women’s sports in Kentucky, I respectfully and proudly add one from my original hometown of Carlisle... small town, small county, small school...Major Moment... In 1993, the Nicholas County High School Lady Blue Jackets, well coached by Barbara Kenney, with her senior daughter at point guard, featuring outstanding team play, and led by “Most Valuable Player” 6-3 senior center Kim Denkins, won the State Sweet Sixteen Title, played in the Capital Plaza Civic Center in Frankfort. Kim Denkins, who went on to have a stellar four-year college career with the University of Kentucky Lady Wildcats, was honored in 2001 by the KHSAA in naming her as one of the top 25 Girls Basketball Players in Kentucky History, “The Terrific Twenty-Five!”

Don J. Dampier, Georgetown, KY

Gun ownership

What we all want is for everyone to be responsible with their guns. Be it pistols or rifles, it makes no difference. It is no different than our wish for people who operate automobiles. Be licensed, obey the rules of the road, operate the vehicle safely and be responsible for any damage you cause.

How we achieve these is through laws and regulations for ownership. Insurance is required. Title transfers are handled to transfer ownership and hence responsibility for the vehicle.

Why can’t we do something like this for gun ownership? Guns would be available for purchase just as they are now. Insurance companies would set rates based on the actuarial risks of owning that weapon. Requiring a title transfer when a gun is sold would also transfer the responsibility for the gun from owner to the purchaser.

Insurance would protect us in the same way as auto insurance. Good for both the owner and the victims in case of an accident.

Think about it. Titles and insurance would in no way restrict one’s right to purchase or sell guns. It would inspire responsibility just like owning a car.

Greg Peterson, Versailles

Trump Endorsement

I heard on the news this morning that Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Attorney General Daniel Cameron for governor of Kentucky. Cameron’s response was to express that he was “honored and humbled” by the endorsement. For the Attorney General of the Kentucky to say that he is honored to get an endorsement from someone who tried to overturn a U.S. presidential election by violence, an effort that resulted in injuries to over a hundred police officers, is disgraceful. Cameron has no honor, no integrity, and no patriotism.

Greg Kring, Lexington

Brave Testimony

The country just witnessed the incredible bravery of the Arizona Republican Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers. He refused to violate the U.S. or the Arizona constitution by falsely certifying former President Donald Trump’s re-election. For this bravery he and his family have been subjected to thousands of insults and dozens of threats.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has just been endorsed by Trump. Where does Cameron stand on the 2020 election? Will he support our democracy by standing up for the rule of law and the basis of our democratic system?

Mr. Cameron shares most of the Arizona’s speaker’s politics: they are both conservative Republicans. The speaker has the added ingredients of integrity and bravery.

Is the price for Trump’s endorsement those two ingredients? Is Cameron a coward? Does he have integrity?

Joseph G. Anthony, Lexington

Trump Endorsement

Readers should wear wading boots to get through the H-L article, “Cameron’s Trump endorsement is a big boost,” on June 21.

My first thought: “Cameron’s not particular about the company he keeps.”

With Trump’s endorsement, Kentucky’s Attorney General Daniel Cameron associates himself with the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and other paramilitary groups, some convicted for seditious conspiracy and others who brazenly run for elective offices.

As a Republican gubernatorial candidate, Cameron should have immediately denounced the disgraced twice-impeached former president who likely will be indicted for inciting the violent January 6 insurrection and attempted government overthrow: Trump continues his rolling coup of the election-denying Big Lie.

Michael Luttig, a renowned conservative judge, said during a Jan. 6 committee hearing: “Donald Trump and his supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy.”

Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell use each other when politically advantageous as in Cameron’s case and the radical majority Supreme Court. Between “the two giants of the Republican Party,” our country is now threatened with authoritarianism, oligarchy, and theocracy.

Vote a straight Democratic ballot in upcoming elections or the USA will resemble a mixture of Russia and Nazi Germany.

Truth: the organizing principle. Voting is our right, if we can keep it.

Ramona Rush, Lexington

Pence legacy

I’ve happened upon some editorial commentaries lately that attempt to bolster former Vice President Mike Pence’s legacy because he did eventually certify the vote that rightfully took former President Donald Trump out of the oval office. Don’t be too quick to beatify Pence. It seems to me he’s nothing more than a political hack who ended up doing the right thing once he realized he had to. He certainly didn’t want his master and overlord to be defeated as he likely figured Trump’s coattails would be long enough to get him a residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; provided Trump would actually leave.

Scott Sears, Somerset

Soccer complex

Currently, The Lexington Sports Club has plans to build a stadium complex for pro and youth soccer league events between Newtown Pike and Russell Cave Roads.

North end civic leaders have been working hard to attract investment and increase positive youth activities in this area.

Doesn’t the Sport’s Club proposal do both?

It’ll provide needed jobs. It’s bringing much wanted, needed youth activities. If scholarships are offered, it’ll make it so any child can participate. Jobs, game tickets and hotel bookings equal desired tax revenue too.

An item left out of this discussion is increase in diversity.

Because this project will bring people from the south end to the north side for a change, it’ill help educate our community to the fact there are a lot of nice neighborhoods filled with wonderful people and marvelous youth in the north end.

When it comes to the two objections: If they build a green buffer zone around it, this would greatly reduce feared noise? No matter what gets built, traffic will increase.

When you look at the core of this proposal, in many ways it’s much needed, positive development in an area that needs it most.

Robin Osgood, Lexington

Mass shootings

There is so much tragedy in the world. Incurable childhood disease, losing a parent to illness or aging, war, draught, famine. And mass shootings. So many mass shootings. Members of congress have it within their power to alleviate so much of this gut wrenching sorrow. But what do they do? they send thoughts and prayers. And then they have committee meetings. Lots of committee meetings using taxpayers’ dollars. The same taxpayers who are suffering the loss of their loved ones due to mass shootings. They sit in these meeting and decide what is the least amount they can do to make the voters think they care. The simple solution is to ban assault weapons. No, it would not prevent all murders, but it would significantly reduce what we have experienced over and over and over again. It is a simple solution that even politicians should understand. Ban assault weapons, and make those who sell them as responsible for the deaths those weapons have caused as the people who pull the trigger. It is a simple solution regardless of the amount of money politicians get from the NRA. A simple solution.

Catherine Ferguson, Lexington