Texas Government needs to take some sex education advice and learn how to pull out, when it comes to the abortion controversy, that is. I feel like they are fighting very hard to stop women in Texas from getting abortions, but why? It's not their body, their child, or their life. No one is banning sex, the number one cause of
pregnancies. No one is trying to regulate men's sperm. It takes two to tango, people! I understand this is a touchy subject, and I don't think we will ever come to an agreement on it, but, I can assure you that sticking your heads where they don't belong, women's uteruses, isn't going in the right direction.
Today in Texas their are
tens of thousands of children in foster care, and a shocking number of them were parent surrenders. I feel that if these new laws pass in full, then more women will be forced into unwanted child birth and these foster systems will fill up faster than ever. Not only can some of these women not afford to have a child, they flat out don't want a child. I can't justify forcing a woman to have a unwanted baby that will be brought into a world where their mother doesn't want them. Recent studies have shown a drop in abortions, the lowest rates since the
1970s. Some people see this as a step in the right direction, but no one is following up. Yes, the abortion rates have dropped, but have the homeless children rates gone up? Have the foster cares seen a jump in the number of children entered each year? No one seems to care what happens to the child after they're born, they just want to force women to have babies and don't seem to think about the consequences.
With the recent abortion laws proposed in Texas, abortions will be harder and harder to receive, leaving hundreds of thousands of women forced to travel hundreds of miles to attend one of the eight clinics that will be left open in Texas. As of now, only a number of clinics have closed due to a Supreme Court block of part of the new abortion law that requires all abortion facilities to have
standards of hospital-style surgical centers. These requirements are outrageous and specifically aimed at causing clinics to shut down. Many of these clinics are donation-based only and don't require payment at all in certain situations. The worst part is that places, such as Planned Parenthood, do so much more than perform abortions; they educate and inform people about sex, give them free contraceptives, breast exams, and other tests.
I urge Texans to think long and hard about the decisions ahead. For a very long time, we have fought to keep a limited government and this is going against everything we stand for. As human beings, women should have a choice in this matter. Religion and personal opinion aside, motherhood should be a choice. Texas Government is overstepping their boundaries here and it scares me to think where they will go next if we allow them to continue down this path.
