Women's health, Planned Parenthood and Abortions

I stand with Planned Parenthood.

The agenda is now clear.  It's not about fighting abortions, it's about relocating women to their 'rightful place' as second class citizens.  There is no taxpayer money going towards abortions.  This money is solely for health and wellness - mostly of women.  And of those, mostly low-income women who have no other alternatives.

For all the pro-life people out there, I respect that you have an opinion, but really that's all it is.  It's yours.  So... you can feel comfortable in knowing that abortion is not an option for you.  And that is perfectly fine.  Well, that is, until you, your wife, daughter or mother become pregnant from something that allows you to challenge that moral ground... rape... consented sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol or whatever may make it 'ok' for you at that point.

However, my body, my daughters bodies, my sisters bodies are not yours.  They are mine and theirs.  And our understanding of life, death and the divine will shape our decisions about it.  Not yours.

I say this in a very definitive way.  That these things WILL shape our decisions, not the government or your personal moral beliefs.  Why do I say this as though nothing the government does will change it?  Because it won't.

Guess what... women have been terminating pregnancies since women have been able to conceive.  This will not change.  How do you think women did it before the invention of modern medicine?  Yeah, the wheels are turning, aren't they?  Any good herbalist knows.  Any good pharmacist knows.  Any woman in a line of healers knows.  No party agenda, No religious body, No crazy, in-everyone's-business-when-they-should-mind-their-own idiot is going to stop that. 

What the attack and shut down of Planned Parenthood WILL do is make healthcare for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of women unattainable.  Period.  It will deny testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.  It will keep birth control out of women's hands so that more unwanted pregnancies will result.  It will let cervical and breast cancer go undetected for thousands of women.

I won't stand for it.  Will you?

Signed,
Bobbi...  herbalist.