Anyone who is against legalized abortion needs to step up and look at this bill. Anti-abortionists need to realize that simply making it illegal is not going to solve the problem. We need to educate our women and make sure they have access to affordable healthcare to educate them and help them to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has introduced an act called Prevention First.
"Senator Reid’s Prevention First Act is a comprehensive family planning package that would expand access to and education about birth control, require equitable insurance coverage for birth control, and ensure that rape survivors receive factually accurate information about how to protect against pregnancy. It also provides funding for grants to establish teen pregnancy prevention programs and ensures that federally funded sex education contains medically accurate information about birth control."
President Bush has consistently taken a roll against education, and against health insurance coverage for contraceptives (although he made sure viagra is covered under most health insurance plans). As expected, this act is recieving alot of oposition from Republicans. I don't understand the republican party's stance against education. To me, only good can come from it. I think this is a good start, and hopefully it will get some publicity.
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