Addie Davis
Nov. 13, 2009
SOC 202
4:00 pm
To secure passage of health care legislation in the House, the Democratic party chose a course that risks the well-being of millions of women for generations to come. They voted to expand the current ban on public financing for abortion and to effectively prohibit women who participate in the proposed health system from obtaining private insurance that covers the full range of reproductive health options. Many women warned the Democratic Party that it is a mistake to build a Congressional majority by recruiting and electing candidates opposed to the party’s commitment to legal abortion and to public financing for the procedure. They mistakenly believed that giving leadership roles to a small minority of anti-abortion Democrats would solve the party’s image problems with “value voters” and answer critics who claimed Democrats were hostile to religion.
I agree with this article in that our government needs to do more to support women’s choice rather than try to appeal to religious ideals. Not everyone is religious and women should be able to choose for themselves, regardless of their spiritual affiliation. Abortion is a topic that will always contain heated discussions and that people are always going to take sides and make assumptions based on their own point-of-view.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/opinion/12michelman.html
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