Las Vegas Sun

April 25, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Time to treat women as equals

President Donald Trump attacked a woman who suffered a sexual assault as a teenager and, for 35 years, kept her silence — except to her therapist and husband.

She came forward knowing that some, including Trump, would vilify her.

Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shifted the issue from sexual assault to politics, rather than seeking the truth.

How long do women have to be subjugated to a “boys will be boys” fraternity attitude, where men can use their power to indulge in their sexual appetites with no consequences? Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., supports this administration’s position.

Women have been subjugated to the point that they lack control of their own bodies. We need to own up to this and demand that they be treated as equal partners in this human experience.

The only remedy to this is to vote your interests and those of your family. If you don’t, this cancer will only spread, as cancer does.