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Health & Fitness

Abortion Should Not Be A Top Concern

Attempting to restrict access to abortion are not empowering or helpful to women at all.

Isn’t it funny that with all of the issues plaguing this country restricting abortion access has been a prime concern on the minds of many lawmakers around the nation?

In recent weeks, Kansas and North Carolina became the latest in a growing number of states to either discuss or pass legislation aiming to limit access to abortions and impose stricter limitations on how and when women might attain an abortion, and dictate what sort of information women need before having an abortion regardless of how factual it is.

More often than not, lawmakers working on these restrictive laws claim they are only attempting to help make women more liberated, not restrict their rights.

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Unfortunately, actions speak far louder than words and the actions of these individuals scream that they are in fact infringing on a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her own body.

Attempting to restrict access to abortion are not empowering or helpful to women at all.

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These restrictive legislative initiatives merely insult women’s intelligence and act as though they have no idea what they are doing when they seek out an abortion. Women are not so feeble-minded that they do not know what an abortion is, or will not recognize false information being given to them.

It is 2013.

We as a society cannot keep taking such giant steps backwards in the progression of women’s rights. Access to a safe, medical procedure should not be so severely limited that it might as well be illegal in some states, or even worse actually become illegal in the near future. We cannot allow our legislative bodies across the country to continuously pass measures that deny half the population the right to make informed decisions about their own bodies. We should not tolerate a very vocal minority to push so hard for new laws and new restrictions that contradict what 70% of the populace want.

Enough is enough.  There are far more pressing issues that can and should be dealt with in all fifty states and at a national level, and none of them involve what is going on inside a woman’s uterus.

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