To the editor:

The “Kansas Tally” (Journal-World, Feb. 2) showing how U.S. Sens. Brownback and Roberts voted in two key votes in the week ending January 30 seems confused. There are two ways to interpret their voting for including a rule in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that life begins at conception and in voting against renewing this program, which provides insurance for children of the working poor.

Is the point that the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth? Or is it that Sens. Brownback and Roberts are primarily interested in denying women control over their own bodies? In either case, they seem poor custodians for the rights of women and children in Kansas.

Joey Sprague,
Lawrence