I noticed that Gov. Rick Perry opposes a law prohibiting drivers from texting, referring to this as “government micromanagement.”

This, then, raises the question: How would the good governor respond if someone in his family was maimed — or killed — by a distracted, texting driver exercising his freedom from the shackles of oppressive government regulations?

Or is the governor's intransigent thick-headedness beyond all redemption.

Joe Lee Barron


A little clarity

Re: “Protect the children,” Your Turn, April 9:

Sometimes it seems like extremists get pleasure from inflaming their opponents with the outrageous and ridiculous. Case in point: Letter writer John K. Landry actually said, “Newtown children would have been eliminated before birth if their parents felt their birth were inconvenient.” He uses this ridiculous hypothetical to imply President Barack Obama is insincere in his love for children.

Landry then goes one step further by stating, “Elimination of children before birth has become the left's ultimate religious sacrament.” So obscenely ridiculous.

A little clarity for anyone even slightly leaning in the direction of agreeing with this zealot. No one is pro-abortion. Pro-choice is not the same thing as pro-abortion. It is mothers or would-be mothers of all ages who find themselves in such desperate predicaments that they feel no option other than abortion.

Just in case you don't understand the background for why abortion is legal, there used to be what was infamously known as “back-alley” abortions and metal coat-hanger abortions.

Enough said; women and young girls need protection from rape and sexual violation in all forms.

Those who favor more stringent laws restricting abortion just don't get it. If you are fortunate enough to know only loving relationships, then abortion is not even a consideration. But know that not everyone is so lucky.

Eugene Anderson Davis


Unseemly reaction

Re: “Massive coverage reaps Pulitzer,” Nation, April 16:

Perhaps, on occasion, it may not be appropriate to include a photo with an article.

Obviously (as indicated by the photo accompanying the article), Ms. Jordan Steffen, of the Denver Post, is excited to receive a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Aurora, Colo., theater massacre. Pulitzers are not handed out like candy, so I presume she and her colleagues did an admirable job depicting this horrendous incident.

Here is the rub. The photo shows unbounded gleefulness and excitement by the recipient and others, and although not intended, is absolutely incongruent with the subject matter — the massacre in a movie theater. Although not stated, this tragic event ultimately resulted in a “congratulatory hug” and “head thrown back in delight.”

Fred Serene,  Pipe Creek