Abortion taxing has Righties up in arms
Pro-Choice advocates find womens health and safety morally right
By Jenna Duffy
Editor-in-Chief,
The VOICE
Abortion remains one of the hottest topics of political, moral, religious, and social debates.
Although Pro-choice has remained firmly in place since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling, this issue remains in the headlines almost daily.
What recently ignited this debate was President Obama lifting the ban on international funding of abortions; which uses American tax dollars to provide safer facilities and conditions for women overseas.
Just as well the President is moving to rescind the Bush Administrations rule for the doctor's right to choose against performing an abortion, prescribing birth control, or the morning after pill.
A rule that the Bush Administration left Americans with just weeks before Obama took office.
The rule allows medical doctors to say no to perform an abortion, if it disagrees with their conscience.
While this rule protected medical professionals from losing their jobs for not performing procedures, it ruffled feathers amongst the Pro-Choicers, who pay lots of their own money towards healthcare.
Obama's choice to annul the rule came directly after many states brought their Pro-choice views to the higher court.
And as for those supposedly wasted tax dollars for abortions the Republicans are crying over, they cry even harder when they have to pay for poor families' welfare or any other tax funded agency that helps struggling families and children.
I stand behind wasted tax dollars for safer medical conditions for women more than I do handing them over to corrupt bankers and car dealers, which President Bush did.
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