Pro-choicers: How would fix the lack of access to abortion services in the USA?
November 282009
Some places in the US don’t have access, very limited access, or constricting laws. What would you do to fix that?
Fix lack of abortion services? For that you would have to repeal the Hyde Amendment that prohibits federal funding for abortion. Then every state would be forced to cover it in their Medicaid programs like California and New York already do.
Then abortion servies and the poor would not be discriminated against. Congress set up the Medicaid program to equalize medical services between the rich and poor. To deny poor women abortion services while paying for childbirth is unfair. It removes reproductive freedom and defies both common sense and humane public policy. Cutting off Medicaid abortion actually increased poverty by trapping mothers of young children in the poverty/welfare cycle.
If Medicaid pays for pre-natal care and well baby visits to the pediatrician. It is discriminatory to cover one pregnancy option and not the other option. So either Medicaid need to provide women with all their options or none at all. When I say ALL I mean ALL; parenting, adoption and abortion.
Why did abortion only became an issue -after- the women’s rights movement? From where I stand, the true motive of the anti-abortion movement appears to be an underhanded retaliation against the newly acquired rights of women, veiled under a concern for the supposed rights of the unborn.
~Pro-Choice Momma; Have had an abortion <no regrets> and I have a 10 month old daughter <no regrets>. I believe in protecting my daughter’s choice.
Abortion: There is a Consensus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSQiazUvgo
Ps – Covering abortion in the long run is cheaper than covering the cost of pregnancies and continued medical care for said baby/child.