Court rules Texas can ban Planned Parenthood from
health program
This article talks about how Texas is banning Planned Parent
Hood affiliates participating in a health program for low income women because
the family planning networks perform abortions. Planned Parenthood sued Texas,
winning an injunction against the law by arguing that abortion is constitutional
and Texas efforts would block women’s access to preventive health care. By
banning Planned Parenthood clinics this could hurt low-income women by losing a
source of affordable healthcare, such as breast cancer screenings, birth
control pills, std screenings, ect. I think that banning health care to low-income
women is completely unfair. Over 50,000 of Texas’ poorest women would be
affected. If women were to not have access to abortion clinics, they would be
bringing in a baby into the world that they would not be able to afford.
Because these women would not be able to afford check ups, this could easily
jeopardize their health. If a poor woman
were raped, she would not be able to have access to an abortion because she
would not have the funds to pay for it. This would leave her in extreme poverty
because now it would be her and a child who she now needs to care for. It is
sad that people of the state vote for a law that may take healthcare away from
lower income women. I believe that healthcare should be available to everyone,
even those who are not available to afford it. If we are not able to provide
healthcare for everyone, (whether not they are poor, middle class or high
class) we may see medical outbreaks such as diseases or STD’s. I think that
every woman should have access to partake in an abortion if she needs to as
well as access to a doctors clinic if she is ill or sick. Banning these rights,
shows that we still are not respecting the choice women have or should be given
in this day and age.
It's sad that states are making laws like this that have such detrimental effects on a large chunk on our society. I understand why abortion is a controversial topic, but in a lot of cases it isn't a matter of morality, it's a matter of a women's quality of life or even the baby's quality of life, not to mention the health of both. If a women's health is in question and they are also poor, they could die because of a law like this. Like you said, women who are raped or can't afford a baby would also be at a disadvantage here. A bigger point I'd like to make about this is that if a decrease in funding or banning of planned parenthood occurs, the contraceptives needed for poor women to avoid pregnancy in the first place would be gone and then they'd be force to continue a pregnancy they also can't afford. It's so backwards!
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