Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com. It seems like every week we are hearing stories from across our country of state legislatures enacting laws to limit the rights of their citizens to access safe, affordable and necessary medical care. The ability to obtain standard reproductive care or gender-affirming care is no longer based on what is best and medically necessary for the patient, but is now dependent on the ideology of those in power in the state in which they live.