Editor, Gazette-Journal: If anyone’s child were physically assaulted, I would want them to get medical care. Broken bones, concussions and wounds require treatment. Injuries ignored will not heal cleanly and may cause lifelong damage or death from infection. I was talking with a friend about the proposed amendments to the Virginia Constitution. My friend had a problem with the wording of the Reproductive Rights amendment, because there was no specification on age. “What if a 10-year-old got pregnant? Does this amendment cut parents out of the equation?” If a 10-year-old is pregnant, it is not by her choice. She is a victim of sexual assault. She has no ability to advocate for her own health care. She has no real understanding of pregnancy and no financial or legal means to care for herself. The wording of this amendment allows for her health care, just as it would for anyone’s child, in any of thousands of different pregnancy circumstances. The only way parents could be “cut out of the...