We need to work to make things better in America today by helping women access professional abortion care when they need it. Every American woman who finds herself pregnant and does not want to be is someones daughter and she deserves professional abortion care. This care has to come from somewhere and requires support. Right now abortion care is under fierce attack. Clinics are closing and large areas of America are under served. And the silence on the political front is frightening and discouraging. Go here to see a PBS Frontline documentary The Last Abortion Clinic to see the faces of women denied care in Mississippi where only one "abortion clinic" or place to receive abortion care remains regardless of your circumstance. Hospitals provide no care here even if your life is threatened by the pregnancy. Women without transportation in the "delta" are trapped to have babies regardless of circumstance.
Genuinely holding women in regard by offering them true choice will give an updraft of support to any candidate. It is there for the "taking".
You know, this is about the women. Women who are often already mothers and wives, and are pregnant and don't want to be. The "state" is increasingly making it impossible for poor women to access professional abortion care and no one seems to care. There is complete silence on this issue and that is too bad. The public needs to be educated and polices need to be established that HELP WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILES. This must be done to provide quality abortion care to American women. The long term "Quiet War on Abortion" has done much harm as fewer and fewer providers exist.
Being an abortion care provider in America these days is not easy. The state has made it almost impossible to help women. We have regulations out the gazoo and no public assistance. Sometimes if feels like creating quality medical care out of thing air! And the silence is deafening.
Yesterday I saw and heard the space shuttle land. How amazing it was to watch seven individuals tearing back into the earth's atmosphere! What an interesting career that must be! My sister helps launch shuttles and I was lamenting to her the lack of "reproductive rights" discussion in this election cycle and she agreed and said "and what about space?" She said she had been listening and heard nothing about advancing our program...which is one place spending defense dollars makes sense as it supports the advancement of exploration and science, two very good things!
Anyway, discussing problems is the way we shape platforms so all of this is not entirely about "spin". Sometimes it does seem we lose sight of reality and what all of this is about to begin with!