Letter to the Editor: Brady’s letter about COVID proposals ‘hypocritical’

If an award was given each year for the most brazenly hypocritical performance by a politician, the chair of the Delaware Republican Party, Jane Brady, would have won easily (with three months to go) following her recent letter (“Delaware GOP: COVID proposals ‘too rigid,’” Sept. 16).

In her continuing stance of opposing anything and everything said or proposed by President Joe Biden (which, to be fair, she must do to keep her position), she attacked his directives on vaccine mandates by stating that “medical decisions should be made after consultation between a patient and their doctor, not by politicians.”

Coming from her, this is laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Has she forgotten that her party has, for decades, been calling for the overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision, which essentially said that the choice to continue or terminate a pregnancy should be made after consultation between a patient and her doctor, not by politicians?

Has she not noticed that presidents of her party have consistently appointed judges to the federal courts (most notably the Supreme Court) whose main qualifications were opposition to the Roe decision? Hasn’t she noticed that virtually all her fellow Republicans, most notably in Texas, seem obsessed with taking away the right of any medical consultation between women and their doctors on this most intimate and private of decisions? Does she not see that President Biden’s push for more vaccinations will save countless lives from a deadly and devastating virus? Does she not realize that her party is showing every day that it is not pro-life? It is simply pro-birth and could care less about what happens afterward, as was proven beyond doubt when the GOP Congress in 2017 tried to strip health care coverage from millions of Americans by repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) without any replacement plan at all.

I guess Mrs. Brady and her party have lost both their sense of shame and their sense of irony.

Daniel Pritchett

Dover