Saturday, February 4, 2012

Pro-choice constantly being in jeopardy

The Komen Foundation's decision this week to pull funding from Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings is yet another example and reminder of how the Roe v. Wade decision is not infallible. Pro "life" groups regularly take the back-door approach to put women's access to their reproductive resources in jeopardy despite the Supreme Court's ruling. Further, a few of the Supreme Court justices are to the point of retirement, meaning that the next president could appoint new justices who would have control to overturn Roe v. Wade.

All this effort on part of the right to not only try to outlaw abortion but to also limit women's access to birth control, while not wanting to put money into helping impoverished children, says to me that the right doesn't care about lives, particularly after the umbilical cord is cut. But rather, they just want to try to put women in their place and prevent them from having sex lives.

Otherwise, funding birth control and children's services would be unanimously supported.