Blog 7

Abortion has been such a hot button issue in this country for so long. Since Roe v Wade the issue has been used to ignite hostility among parties and constituents. Its not a matter of right and wrong though, despite what conservatives have hammered into our heads over and over again. Its a talking point, its a button to press to raise votes under false and misinformed pretenses. 

The fact is that this is not a black and white issue, its not a clear cut right or wrong topic. But the rhetoric that has plagued elections and our news has resulted in something so devastatingly backwards that we can no longer deny that our nation is letting women down in the most barbaric way.

This month Alabama passed one of the strictest abortion bans the country has seen since the outcome of Roe v Wade, a case in which this new law is intended to challenge. In a state already facing dwindling OB-GYN numbers, the incentive to stay or practice in Alabama, or in the rest of the southeast, is lowered as doctors could now risk jail time for providing abortions. While quality, women centered healthcare is already hard to find, this will make it even riskier, and the women of Alabama could pay the price with their lives.

Allowing this bill to pass could create bleak circumstances for women in need down the line, if anti-abortion bills continue to spread across the country. More women will be at risk, and there is nothing pro-life about limiting life saving medical care for the sake of an unpleasant but necessary truth: that abortions are necessary and a fundamental right.