Has it ever occurred to former House Speaker and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek that the majority of western Treasure Valley isn’t overly concerned about Idaho’s new abortion law? Has she ever stopped to think why the idea of moving Idaho’s border to include a huge portion of Oregon has taken flight? I don’t see any great move to bring Planned Parenthood to Malheur County. No petitions and no picketing of pro-pregnancy centers. And I don’t think I’m the only one living in the border counties of Oregon who likes it that way. Really, she need not be “really worried,” as she said at a news conference with Planned Parenthood.

The liberal politicians of Salem and the Willamette Valley region always like everyone to think they are so caring for the greater good. But don’t be fooled. They’re growing a culture of death: cities spreading out everywhere so you can’t tell where one ends and the next one begins, destroying valuable farmland; homelessness, drugs and crime are rampant; abortion numbers are high. Is this any way to respect human life? Liberal politicians like to think it’s so horrible that abortion isn’t offered on every street corner out here, that we are so deprived in Eastern Oregon. But funny isn’t it, their mothers granted them the gift of life. Please, all you liberal politicians, don’t push your ideals on us Eastern Oregonians. Don’t you realize that’s why we want to be a part of conservative Idaho?

Rebecca Murray, Nyssa