After reading THIS news item, I became angry. I became pretty upset with the Governor of Ohio. I do believe that my anger is justified.
With the passing of Ohio's new budget, it is disheartening to see the rights of women being stripped away. It does not matter whether I live in Ohio or not. What matters is that women will now be denied basic and important care. This will also mean that women will be stripped of their privacy rights and civil rights.
Abortion has been an issue that has been debated for decades. The debate has three sides. The first side are people who are pro-choice, the second side are those with no real concrete opinion and the third are pro-lifers. I believe with the posting of the photo above that you can hazard a guess as to which side I lie on.
I believe that each women has the right to choose what is best for them. Our bodies are our own, and quite frankly, I have issues with a male politician making that decision for me. He is unable to become pregnant. He is unable to conceive and carry a child. He is unable to make the hardest decision that a woman could ever make in her entire life. He is unable to live with the lifelong anguish of that decision, and he will never live with the "what-ifs".
Too many people believe that women have an easy time making that decision. It isn't easy for most. Granted, there are some that make the decision without forethought, however most struggle with it. Deciding to have an abortion is the hardest decision most will ever make in their entire lives.
Too many people also believe that it's a cut and dry issue. It truly is not. There are so many different factors involved -- factors that some would never be able to understand and grasp a hold of. Governor Kasich will never be able to understand, so why in the hell does he believe that it is right and just for him to play the role of God.
Only God may tell us what is right and what is wrong. Only God can judge our decisions and the way we choose to live our lives. Only God can punish us and only God can forgive.
Governor Kasich is telling women, who have to make that painful decision, that they should be denied prompt medical attention should something go wrong. What he is saying is that he does not care if a woman bleeds to death. What he is saying that he has no compassion in his heart for anyone.
He is also telling women that there is no hope for rape victims who become pregnant due to rape. A rape crisis center will no longer inform its "clients" that abortion is an option. Are rape victims low on the totem pole too, Gov. Kasich?
Gov. Kasich, until you are able to feel the anguish in your heart over making the decision to have an abortion, please stop making decisions for women. Until you have felt the feelings of diminished self-worth and live with the memories of being savagely violated, please refrain from pushing your antiquated beliefs on a class of people who rely on our government to make decisions that are best for us.
I lived through both. Have you?
It isn't about you, Governor Kasich.
It's about the women.
You seemed to have forgotten that.
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