Jonathan Patz in his letter to the editor describes legislation to limit abortions as an attempt to impose a religious point of view on a political issue. (“Mixing politics with religion,” Jan. 28) He uses the argument that the a large portion of the state’s population does not support this point of view. His thinking is mistaken in at least two ways: 1] our state government is not a democracy, but a representative republic. Do the people of Sen. Richardson’s district support him, obviously, as they elected him, and 2] and why would it be necessary to limit ending the life of an unborn human being [aka “abortion”]? Because it is a moral issue, not political. Unfortunately Patz does not understand what a theocracy really is if he thinks “so many members...” of his party are trying to combine the two forms of government, neither of which describe our state or federal government.

George Bowers Milford