Labrador defends life but not medicine

Raul Labrador’s website states: “Life is sacred and is worth fighting for.” His “Keep Idaho Strong” page states he will “defend the sanctity of life.”

However, recently he said if elected governor he would not try to change the state’s faith-healing exemption that allows parents to deny children medical treatment, without fear of criminal prosecution.

How does it work that you make these claims to voters to protect life and also say that you will allow parents to let their children die from medical neglect? The only way it works is to accept that children do not count, that their parents’ beliefs trump the children’s rights to live.

However, the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution proclaims: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life.”

Having kids die instead of being able to have their constitutional right to life is a horrible price to pay to become an elected official.

Sir, if elected governor, please rethink your position on this issue and give all Idaho children an equal right to life.

Bruce Wingate

Boise