A great read underlining the current debate.
Why do American Politics hinge on the issue of women’s healthcare? Instead of focusing on birth control and abortion why not try focusing on urgent issues.
Earmarked money for Planned Parenthood is not causing the budget deficit, the lack of jobs, or the plummeting economy. RETHINK corporate tax cuts, military spending, MNC regulation, free-market regime, government salaries.
Planned Parenthood is part of a larger social safety net for the people. Axing it does not mean we are going to have less teenagers having sex or getting pregnant. It just means that that funding is probably going to go into someone else’s pocket, who is probably having sex with teenagers.
Pro-Choice does not mean you can’t be Pro-Life. Pro-choice does not fight to kill fetuses but to ensure women have a choice when deciding what happens to their bodies.
GOP wants to axe funding for Planned Parenthood because 3% of the services it provides includes abortion and abortion goes against the sanctity of life. The argument made is that abortion is essentially murder. However, the earmarked money for Planned Parenthood, if taken away, would probably go towards military spending somehow. Military spending includes a)preparing to kill people and/or b) killing people. Therein lies hypocrisy.
Birth control is not the devil. With a high teen pregnancy rate in the States, the people can only benefit from access to such healthcare.
NOTE ADDED: I refrain from using ‘citizens’ because the imagined citizen of the United States right now largely excludes more than half of the population. Moreover, I realize i have made some broad generalizations, however all in the name of pedagogy.
In solidarity,
-P
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