Cheri Daniels of Indiana

Mrs. Cheri Daniels, you are the wife of Governor Mitch Daniels (R) Indiana, and recently with the push of his majority of Republican/Baggers legislators, he approved a bill to cut funding to Planned Parenthood in the Hoosier State approximately $4 million worth.

I am curious, as the First Lady of the state of Indiana if you have any concern for the women in your state, particularly the poor, the under-insured, the fearful to tell their husbands, young women who now don't have an outlet for reproductive, health matters, and family planning. I am curious if you have considered this anti feminine move by your husband and his co-haters of women rights, what happens NOW to women in your state who sought out Planned Parenthood because that organization was the ONLY organization many woman could afford and felt free to pursue in regard to their physical and mental health needs?

I know you don't like to be in the limelight and your husband has often been quoted in saying FAMILY is the utmost of importance. I know that you remain silent in public, but I wonder Mrs. Daniels, in PRIVATE, does your conscience bother you when what your husband approved had more to do with politics then with the welfare of women? I wonder, Mrs First Lady of Indiana, Daniels, if you and your Governor husband discussed what the denial of services offered by Planned Parenthood in Indiana would do for the health and welfare of women in your state with your four daughters? I wonder Mrs. Daniels if you and your family values husband have discussed with your four daughters how suddenly Big Government intervention in the reproductive and health rights of women demeans the intelligence, insight and freedoms of women, some of whom might be your daughters ages, friends, or acquaintances, or as they say 6 degrees of separation from your four daughters?

I wonder, Mrs Daniels, if your were not the wife of a millionaire and could not afford really swell health insurance for you and your four daughters, what you might think about removing one outlet that women seek for their reproductive and health concerns that also provides them a safe and secure environment for their private needs? I wonder Cheri Daniels how you would, if you were not the wife of a millionaire, explain to your daughters that they have little choice in seeking care and are considered by a majority of men and some self loathing women as not being smart enough to understand and make judgement on their own bodies?

Now, Mrs Daniels, I don't think that women's reproductive rights is a cause that ONLY women should be concerned with, as I don't think Gay rights are the purview of the LGBT community, or civil rights should only be cared for by people of color, BUT I do think as a woman, a mother, a wife you might wonder why most Republican/Baggers in your state feel they can intervene, think, and decide for females better then the females living in Indiana?

I know Mrs. Daniels that governing is male stuff, and you probably like being the "little lady" at home taking care of your hubby and four daughters, and Mrs. Daniels there is NOTHING at all wrong with that. Men and women should be able to live their life any way they wish, but when the government takes that right away then choice of any kind no longer exists.

I wonder, Mrs. Daniels, what kind of role model your inaction in the denial of funds for Planned Parenthood in your state of Indiana as sanctioned by your husband, Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana provides for your four daughters?

Oh, by the way a belated Happy Mother's Day to you!