The whole Birth Control abortion issue has to do with keeping women sexuality under Patriarchal control like the Morally superior one man social agency to help women that is posting on here ...."kicking my ass" LOL
Yeah, those women who got three quarters of a million abortions last year were forced to spread their legs and **** their brains out.
This is indicative of the level of discourse we get from so-called "right-to-life" crowd. It always comes down to the notion that a woman who seeks an abortion is sexually promiscuous and for whom the pregnancy is simply an inconvenience. The myth that women who get abortions are uncaring single women who don't want the party to end, is just that: a myth.
The women who seek abortions are overwhelmingly parents of one or more children, who simply cannot afford another child. Living without sex may be an option for you, but for poor married women, it is not necessarily an option, and the costs of obtaining a birth control prescription, and the tests mandated by law prior to the issuance of the prescription - all mandated by Republican administrations in various states, is specifically designed to discourage young single women with low incomes from obtaining effective birth control.
The Republican lead war against women's reproductive health in the US, is shameful. It assumes that women have no idea of what is best for them or their families. In order to obtain birth control, they are subjected to unnecessary tests, adding to the cost of obtaining the prescription, which many employers don't want to covered due to religious reasons. I don't understand why my method of birth control is any business of my employer. It is discriminatory for men to be able to obtain viagara without being subjected to the same "level of disclosure" and testing that women go through for birth control. This is, in effect, an attempt to dictate sexual morality to women. Why don't we try dictating to men how they should behave with women.
In order to get an abortion, women must be fully informed by their physicians, be forced to view a sonogram (in itself an invasive test), of the fetus they cannot afford to carry to term, in many cases wait overnight adding the expense of accommodations to the cost of the unnecessary tests and the actual abortion itself. So much for government not interfering in a private medical matter.
It's also not lost on me the number of times Republican law makers have encouraged their daughters, or their mistresses, to have abortions, while at the same time voting in favour of legislation which makes it more difficult and/or expensive for poor women to make the same choice.
Many women are haunted by the choice they feel they have to make, even though the know it was the right choice, in the context of their lives at the time. One friend, who was pregnant and married at 16, gave birth at 17, and promptly found herself pregnant again, had a second child at 18, and by age 19 was a high-school drop out with two children under the age of 3, an abusive, drug-addict husband, and pregnant for the third time. She had an abortion, moved into a shelter, finished high school and got a decent paying job. None of which was easy. She could not have done this with a third baby.
