Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to stop a new Texas rule that will not allow the family planning organization from using a program that provides cancer screenings, birth control, and other health services to low-income women. Planned Parenthood is saying it is unconstitutional and that will lead to tons of women not being able to get preventive healthcare from their chosen provider. To me this goes along with the gay-marriage debate that the states are trying to define what is appropriate and not appropriate for their citizens to receive and what rights. "Since the Texas Women's Health Program began in 2007, state law has technically banned its money from going to abortion providers or affiliates of abortion providers, but the state did not enforce the ban on affiliates" Also, just like the gay-marriage debate deals with religion reasoning so does the abortion conversation. Women have always been oppressed there has been improvements over the years but there is still a lot to be done for women. To me this is a social problem, women and gay marriage need help with this civil rights issue. Women and individuals who identify themselves with a gay identity are being oppressed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/us-usa-plannedparenthood-texas-idUSBRE83A1G320120411
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