Leave the decision to parents, doctors
Rep. Doug McKillip sponsored HB 954 and says “it’s going to save 1,200 babies a year” (“ ‘Fetal pain’ bill signed into law,” Metro, May 2).
What it’s really going to do is add thousands of babies to our state’s welfare system.
Is that really a better solution?
Leave these decisions to the women (and the fathers) and their doctors.
Dusty Rhodes Haverty, Marietta
There is a solution for Blank, fans, taxpayers
Regarding “Don’t put taxpayers on hook for new nest” (Opinion, May 2) and “Cold truth of why you need a stadium” (Opinion, May 2), the solution is simple.
Go ahead and spend public funds for a new Dome — but place a tax lien on the property in the amount of taxpayers’ monies spent, to be paid upon the next sale of the team.
You could even charge no interest.
This way, Arthur Blank gets his edifice, sports fans get their entertainment and taxpayers are made whole.
Quinn Hudson, Decatur
Look at government’s argument in Arizona
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is calling for a law banning cellphone usage while driving any vehicle on any road in the country.
Constitutional issues aside, it is disingenuous for the federal government to say it wants local police to enforce a proposed federal cellphone law, when at the same time the federal government is arguing that Arizona has no right to enforce federal immigration laws.
JOHN H. WATSON, MARIETTA
Let’s give president the credit he deserves
If President Barack Obama had not gone after (and succeeded in killing) Osama bin Laden, he would have been regarded as being as unsuccessful as President George W. Bush.
Let’s give credit where credit is due.
David Clarke, Buford
Grandstand is exactly what Obama craved
The AJC inadvertently confirmed what we all know: that President Barack Obama’s latest junket to Afghanistan was yet another campaign trip costing the taxpayers tens of thousands (“Obama sees an end to combat,” News, May 2).
The AJC story stated:
“He ended his lightning visit with the speech delivered straight to the television camera — and the voters he was trying to reach back home.”
The supposed purpose of the trip (to sign an agreement with Afghan’s President Hamid Karzai) could have been accomplished via diplomatic pouch — but that would not have given Obama the grandstand he craved.
Walter H. Inge, Atlanta
