Letter: You can't be pro life and hate birth control

Arguably, little to date has exemplified the irrationality of self-proclaimed “family values” Republicans more clearly than the Arizona Republic’s news story “Arizona bill targets state worker donations to abortion sites."

Claims to support “family values” are meaningless unless Planned Parenthood is made available, as easily as possible, to everyone.

Families who have children without being able to care for them properly are the major contributors towards each of the following social problems: school dropouts and failure; the ever-increasing need for more prisons and police; neighborhood crime; increased taxes; joblessness; and unacceptable rates of voting and community involvement.

Each hour, about 9,000 more babies are born -- every year, about 80 million. When I was born, the earth’s human population was less than half of today’s 7.2 billion persons.

Every day, there is less water and farmable land per person; the number of decent jobs is declining. And incomprehensibly, under these conditions, the GOP has launched a massive assault on birth control. In this day and age, to oppose the use of birth control is a crime against humanity.

— William Dusenberry, Gilbert