Local folks deserve health services, too

So many of us have lost loved ones to cancer — a mother, a father, a friend or a neighbor. My mother’s doctors found cancer twice within a decade. Fortunately because it was caught early by mammogram, it did not take her life. When I read about Planned Parenthood medical staff coming to Sandpoint, I thought: “How many others could be saved by a simple low-cost or free mammogram they would offer?”

While most in opposition like to write about the polarizing private health decision which makes up a small fraction of what Planned Parenthood offers (3 percent), I think of the sisters, mothers and daughters who can no have low cost or free health care screenings and other reproductive services. Men are treated, too.

For more than 100 years, Planned Parenthood has offered health services to the rich, middle class and poor all over the country. People in Bonner County deserve those services, too.

JOYCE M. MILLER

Coolin