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EDITOR'S NOTE: What's on the minds of Butler County voters as they prepare to vote in the presidential election? In this series of stories leading up to November, we let them tell us.

MONROE — Gloria Hendrickson says her staunch conservative values and her stand against abortion are leading her to support Republican presidential hopeful John McCain this November.

Hendrickson, 79, a retired nurse from the former Middletown Regional Hospital, is a Middletown native who has lived in Monroe since 1953.

"I think it's terrible, it's gotten to be it's just a form of birth control," she said of abortion. "I think the more you do for people the less they are going to do for themselves."

Hendrickson, who has four children, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren, also is concerned for her family's future, particularly her grandchildren.

She believes the mounting U.S. national debt is imperiling that future.

"We need to start cutting back this debt. It's terrible what we're passing onto our kids," Hendrickson said.

"They're going to pay for something that they had nothing to do with. The debt was made before they were even born."

Contact this reporter at (513) 483-5219 or dewilson@coxohio.com.