Editor, Gazette-Journal: I am tired of being a political tool. I am tired of people who have never met me making decisions for me. As a grown woman, living in one of the richest countries in the world, I should be able to select the health care that I think is best for me. But that isn’t the way it works. Politicians tell me what medicine I am allowed to use and what can be done to my body. Insurance companies decide if I can have the surgeries and take the medicines my doctor prescribes. Hospital boards decide if I will have to drive hundreds of miles to receive care. Decisions about pregnancy and health care should be made by patients—women—and their doctors. I am tired of waiting for Rob Wittman’s support. His vast experience in public health has not resulted in better, affordable health care for women in our rural community. After 20 years, all I have left for Rob Wittman is disappointment. Luckily, a candidate is running for Congress who will fight for women. Tim Cywinski, who is ...