Reproductive Rights for Women

While looking through a few posts on feministing.com I came across one that particularly interested me. I have been looking into reproductive rights for women, and recently was surprised to find that the US House of Representative recently voted in favor of health care reform that included an abortion ban. So much for reproductive rights for women. The fact that there is still a problem with the lack of separation between church and state continues to bother me and I am even more surprised that people are still having trouble considering abortion services as health services. The interesting part about this post was not the fact that the blogger was as shocked and upset as I was when I heard the news but the fact that she believed that this ban could be a “movement win.” She believes that since there has been an uproar in the community and an increase in activism against this ban, it may help in the end bring women more reproductive rights. People have become recommitted to reproductive justice and more people have come to realize what a huge topic it really is. Women’s health needs to be protected and access needs to be expanded. People have had the wrong idea that electing Democrats into office and having a Democratic majority in the house also means that we are electing pro-choice majorities and that reproductive choice is safe. It is clear that this is untrue and more needs to be done on a government level to prevent more rights being taken from women. So I hope that this blogger is right and we can all be inspired and come together as a united movement.