Note: I know you're out there lurking, waiting to see what we're bitching, griping, complaining, asking about. You're our elected officials, you're the candidates who are looking to get our votes in primaries, you're the one's who influence policies in your county, state, and the federal government. I know you're there, I know you're taking notes. I'm putting out a call to you to come and address us, address me on issues that concern us, concern me, a mother of a voting age young adult.
I'd like you to meet my daughter, she's an intelligent, articulate, enthusiastic and caring 18 year old who graduated from high school two weeks ago. She's excited, she's going to college in the fall. She wants to be a doctor, not just any doctor, but an obstetrician. She wants to bring babies into this world, and she wants to do right for women, for others, for the world. Like every mother, I'm concerned for her and her future.
Please help me understand, please tell me where you stand. Are you going to fight and perserve the advancements that women over the decades have done to help YOU get to where you're at or...
Will you allow the continuing erosion of the rights for women continue?
We were informed today in mcjoans diary, Dems Funding Abstinence-Only Ed of a bill was going to be presented to a House subcomittee. In another diary by US House Representative, Louise Slaughter (D-NY), On the 42nd Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut - Looking Towards Prevention First, we heard about the Prevention First Act.
Why, after 42 years, are we debating the need for birth control and proper prevention education? Why are we even compromising given the advances that have been made since then? Many of us in our 30's and 40's know that abstinence doesn't work. We've already been told by our parents we should wait till we get married, alot of us didn't. Luckily, we had birth control available. Unfortunately, there were and are many, who do not have access to it. I'm sorry, this is a no brainer to most of us. We want to bring down the teen pregnancy and unwed mother rate, we need credible education. Will my daughter eventually not have access to birth control? Will she even be able to prescribe it to her patients when she starts her practice?
We are watching a woman's right to privacy and the availability of abortion slowly being chipped away. The decision to have an abortion isn't an easy one, and I don't buy the rights claims that it's too convenient. I have never been placed in the position where I needed to make a decision to have one or not, but I sat with a friend who did. It wasn't an easy decision to make for her, but she made it. For her, it was the right decision. But who's to dictate what's right for another person, especially if they're not facing the situation? Will it be available if my daughter needs one in the future? Will she be able to provide that service for some desperate woman who has no other choice or will she be jailed for performing the service? Will our government cave and allow others to determine how we live?
I'd ask this of my representatives, but since they're Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint and Representative John Wilson, you can understand that I'd just be talking to a wall. So I come to you, looking for reassurance, to find out what you are willing to do to stop the slow move right to subjagate women, and put us back into the Victorian era where we once were incubators and were discarded should our wombs become useless.