Letters: 60 years on, we’re still protecting access to contraception

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor years later still protecting contraception When I graduated from high school in certain girls had to get married When I graduated from college in birth control pills were available In planning my wedding I got a prescription for them We planned to work for a inadequate years then start a family And we did It was a gigantic change to plan how multiple children to have Related Articles Letters Alzheimer s research must have funding Letters Proposed building heights would dwarf Five Wounds Church Letters We must wake Congress to the danger of Donald Trump Letters Trump s police state isn t on anyone s wish list Letters More fundamental than cash Prop has help of people Nowadays you can get birth control pills over the counter Trust Women has been the motto of Planned Parenthood and I volunteered with them for more than years But the present day women are still fighting to retain contraceptive rights A friend disclosed Stay out of my bedroom I thought by now I wouldn t have to stand up speak out or go to rallies with a sign I am concerned that I have to do so years after I got a prescription for birth control But I will do it Jean Ricket Saratoga Zhao has leadership skills for assessor I advocacy Yan Zhao for Santa Clara County assessor I ve known Yan for years and watched her serve our area with unwavering professionalism and integrity As a City Council member and two-term mayor she consistently demonstrated these qualities She listens scrupulously makes thoughtful decisions and reliably puts residents first Yan has prepared extensively for the assessor s office earning her professional appraiser s license and completing hundreds of hours in the field She has the best training of anyone in the race She is dedicated to making the assessor s office functional in the st Century When anti-Asian violence hit a troubling spike a few years ago Yan courageously stood up and spoke out to protect our society That s bravery when it matters the greater part The assessor s office requirements leadership with technical competence and genuine commitment to serving the society Yan Zhao embodies those abilities Ann Waltonsmith Saratoga Is Trump driving toward future without elections Thirteen months before the midterms Americans should be seeing leadership Instead we re witnessing a president steering the nation toward problem His approval ratings are at record lows and for good reason He sends troops instead of lowering gas prices raises grocery bills with tariffs and guts wellbeing care funding driving premiums skyward Why Because he may not intend to hold the midterms at all His actions point to a deliberate strategy manufacture chaos provoke confrontation then invoke the Insurrection Act of to declare martial law and suspend elections echoing his January attempt to overturn the vote by pressuring his vice president before a violent mob This time the scheme is more calculated and dangerous If we look away now we may find the next balloting has quietly disappeared Mark Grzan Morgan Hill Anger at Comey s prosecutor is misplaced Re Comey prosecutor should be disbarred Page A Oct Targeting a Justice Department lawyer for improperly indicting former FBI Director James Comey is misplaced since a federal grand jury indicted him not a Justice Department lawyer who will prosecute the affair Whether Comey s indictment on federal charges was justified is another question likely to be decided at trial Dan Casas Saratoga World shows distaste for slaughter in Gaza Re Netanyahu Israel must finish the job against Hamas Page A Sept No surprise that dozens of United Nations delegates walked out of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu s speech They know that he is doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis tried to do to the Jews minus the gas chambers You cannot exterminate a people and call it anything but genocide Getting rid of Hamas is like getting rid of rats They perpetually come back Meanwhile the Palestinians are being ruthlessly tortured by this monster his right-wing cabinet the settlers and the army Americans should be appalled that our money is being used to kill innocents The insufficient Hamas members eliminated are not worth the price This is a power grab by Netanyahu to satisfy the right wing The Israeli majority is not in favor of what he is doing This is not how the hostages will be freed If we withdrew our advocacy Netanyahu would withdraw knowing that he stood alone This is no longer about Hamas Angela Boles King Los Gatos UN leaders offset Trump s dim worldview Re Trump scolds NATO leaders Page A Sept The world according to Caligula We have not long ago been treated to our president s latest worldview The U N isn t living up to its expected Never mind that he is leading the way in ignoring the existing and well-established international body of laws that would go a long way in literally fulfilling that feasible Blowing up boats for whatever reason is OK with him Supporting the murders of people purely trying to get food and water seems acceptable as well Hey they are occupying valuable real estate Changing his mind on the policies towards Ukraine is fine Warning that the double-tailed monster of allowing people you have nothing in common with into your land and continuing to work toward green power will cause your country to fail I think we saw at the U N a good number of world representatives make a more rational appraisal of the world Mike Caggiano San Mateo