Editor,

I moved to Maine almost 20 years ago, at age 22. Like many young adults, I shared an apartment with several roommates, worked a couple of jobs to pay the bills…and I didn’t have any health coverage. But because a good friend referred me to Planned Parenthood, I still had birth control. A kind and professional doctor there made sure I had what I needed, on a sliding fee scale that worked for me.

Planned Parenthood is such an important resource for low income Mainers, especially for birth control and education on how to prevent unintended pregnancy.

I’m now the mom of two great kids, and I still live and work in Maine. Young people need to know that if they choose to live and work here like I did, their leaders will fight to make sure that family planning decisions stay within the family, and that the government has no place in their doctor’s exam room.

Judge Kavanaugh has already ruled that employers should be able to deny their employees access to birth control. If he is on the Supreme Court he will further threaten our rights to make our own decisions about family planning.

Our senators Collins and King should show that they will stand with the women of their state and vote against Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Jennie Witt

Saco