This week’s topic is a very
sensitive one. It can be a personal and it can be an international issue.
Abortion hasn’t been an issue in my family, in that, no one that I know of, has
gone through that procedure. But I do know from close friends that abortion is
not the easiest thing to go through. It’s a tough decision to make on a woman’s
body and on the life that couldn’t been brought into this world. But, I think,
abortion should be a choice for the woman, in the situation, to make, not the
government. The government shouldn’t write laws that prohibit the choice to
have abortions or not.
Women should have the choice to
have birth control, have abortion, and have all the rights to do whatever to
their bodies. In the article by David Firestone, “conservatives ridiculed Gov.
Rick Scott of Florida as a traitor to their cause after he announced yesterday
that he would expand the state’s Medicaid program with money from President
Obama’s health care reform system” (Firestone). Gov. Rick Scott is just
accepting reality before anyone else. It is believed that all the holdout
states will knuckle under and do exactly the same thing. In the article,
Firestone says that if Florida invested a small amount of their own money to
cover the poor, state get a huge increase in federal Medicaid funds. For
example, “by spending $3 billion over the next decade on Medicaid, Mr. Scott’s
state will receive $26 billion” (Firestone). The benefits of this small
investment would be huge. There would be a significant increase in the number
of insured people, rising by as much as 16 million if all states go along.
Personally, women and children need
to have more options and more resources. We women need to stand up and fight
for our rights. We have the right to have an abortion if we need to, or if we
want to. There are numerous reasons why women should have the right to have
abortions. I’m not going to list them all out, but there are a lot. And in some
states, that do allow abortions, the state doesn’t even cover the procedures
with funding. It’s a procedure, right? So, why shouldn’t it be covered? It
really does sicken me how much our country has developed over the religious
reasons, not the moral and just reasons of when to do something, or do
anything! Pro-life or pro-choice, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is the
choice to have a choice.
Hey Nellie! Government should back out of personal matters like abortion- I agree with you there! With the different abortion laws being so inconsistent between states, there is little room for women to feel like they have TOTAL control of their personal decisions, sad to say. However, I feel that an increase in large-scale companies like Medicaid could span access to a lot of different things! Education, contraception, affordability, and other means of access could prove beneficial to women. I think the government should support women's independent opinions on the topic of abortions. Really, if abortions are seen in the same light as other medical procedures, they should be covered by insurance as well! Such a tricky subject...
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