“Cape Cod’s lack of abortion services begins in 2008 and travels longer” (May 14), said Senator Julian Sill. “Cape’s Community Health Center is federally funded. It’s being received and it’s an obstacle. “It’s regulated by the federal government and we can’t provide these services. Cape Cod Healthcare faces similar problems.”
On the contrary, federal funding does not prevent medical institutions from having an abortion. For example, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital website lists a range of abortion services available at the outpatient clinic at the Family Planning Center in Boston.
The Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funding from covering abortion services for women or girls enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Neither Hyde nor other federal regulations limit Massachusetts medical institutions to carry out abortions.
Federal funding is not the reason why Cape Cod Healthcare does not have an abortion. Cyr reportedly says he hopes the abortion service will be restored in Cape. He was able to achieve that goal by persuading Cape Cod Healthcare to change its selective abortion-free policy.
Ronald A. Gabel, MD, Yarmouth Port
Record 1 million US COVID deaths
Condolences to all who lost their family, loved ones and friends at COVID-19.
My brother-in-law died of COVID-19 at Cape Cod Hospital on April 24, 2020. After spending three weeks on a ventilator, he slowly improved, but suddenly he suffered a series of strokes and became nourished. After my sister-in-law, my niece and nephew, said goodbye to tears in their last sorrow, he was removed from the ventilator and died shortly thereafter.
Pandemic:Cape Cod remembers the dead we lost as the country records 1 million COVID deaths.
Regarding COVID-19, on April 23, 2020, President Donald Trump said: As you can see, it gets into the lungs and has so many effects on the lungs that it would be interesting to check it. “
I can’t see through the tears, so I’ll stop writing at this point.
Mike Rice, Wellfleet
There are too many guns in America
According to police, an 18-year-old shooter in Buffalo, New York, has an underdeveloped brain, is a racist, and believes in Internet lies. He can have as many beliefs and lies as he wants, but how did he get the gun?
“We don’t think it’s safe”:Many black Americans who are sad and traumatized after the shooting of Buffalo
Oh, I know, he could get someone to buy it for him, it could be a family item, or he could make it. There are more guns in this country than people. What’s wrong with that statement? All. RIP to 10 buffalo people in color.
Lee Bertel, Eastam
