Leaving out any opinion of weather health care reform is on the right track or not… I want to point out that I can’t support it as long as it comes with further restrictions, tying women to a status quo where only those who can afford abortions will be able to get them.
Abortion may remain legal, but so called pro-life groups put women’s lives and livelihoods at risk every day as they work to make abortion more difficult to access, more expensive to obtain. They try to shame women into giving up their rights, to tell women what to do with their bodies, to make others’ decisions for them. They harass workers and patients at clinics. They murder doctors and commit terrorist acts at clinics, yet they are for the good?
Quit shouting “Choose Life” when you are making it clear women don’t have a choice. Quit treating a legal medical procedure as a special exception to health care and reform. Doctors are in the business of medicine, not religious zealots, not bigoted politicians.
I’m so disappointed in our government right now when I see a deal like this on the horizon that will undermine women further.
Tags: abortion, abortion rights, anti stupak, pro choice, women's rights
