How do you tell the next generation of women in your life that they are on track to have less freedoms as females than we have had? To tell them that politicians have decided they want to play doctor and decide for us what we can and cannot do with our own bodies in a doctors office?
There was a system in place that worked in every state, but a man decided to take that decision away from women. Roe v. Wade was on every ballot since it was passed and for over 50 years the majority of voters in this country voted to keep it in place.
Yes, it had its growing pains, but it was better than reading about babies being found in dumpsters, garbage cans, and alleys because that was the only way women could take their reproductive care into their own hands.
The pro-birthers would have you believe that Amendment G is too extreme, but I would counter that the current law in South Dakota is too extreme and draconian.
Doctors should never be forced to decide a patients care based on whether they want to go to jail for performing life-saving medical procedures or let a woman under their care get so sick she either dies, develops an infection they must let almost kill her, or scars her to the point she no longer has the choice to have a baby.
We know the pro-birthers next steps are to make IVF and birth control illegal. We must make our stand now before it is too late. Are women just supposed to allow themselves to become brood mares or second-class citizens with no choice of their own for their own body?
Its time for pro-birthers to start caring more about babies after they have been born instead of only caring about them until they are born. Its time to quit telling women what choices they can or cant make about their own bodies and reproductive decisions. It is time to kick politicians out of the doctors office and leave these decisions to the medical staff, patients, and their families.
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