Editor:

Support a candidate because of more than one issue.

Here are some thoughts on using the standard of "pro-life" for choosing a candidate. Does pro-life stop at birth? If not, then the candidate's policies toward providing health care, job training, living wage employment, affordable day care, affordable housing, and quality education, as well as, pre- and post-natal child-care are vital. Then there is the support for the aging in our society. They too are very vulnerable.

How about policies that help people move out of poverty? Is it OK for those of us who drew a winning ticket in this life to have so much and others not have enough to subsist? How does pro-life fit here?

What about a candidate's stand on the environment, pollution, clean air, drinkable water, and sustainable use of natural resources? Pro-life?

Then there is money spent on nuclear weapons and conventional wars (too many innocent lives lost and damaged). Would a better investment be seeking nonviolent solutions and a safer society for all? Pro-life?

All these seem like "pro-life" issues to me, and isn't life from the womb to the tomb? Know where your candidate stands, and vote. Choose to support the candidate whose platform agrees with many of the issues important to you, and it is OK to expect the truth.

KATHY NICKODEMUS, Casper