Care About Reducing Abortions? Stop Blocking Access To Contraception.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One look at the GOP’s approach to family planning services in Texas and makes that clear. Republicans only want to strip women of their right to choose while also giving them no other choices.

Texas’ abortion law is part of a long history of blocking women’s access to reproductive healthcare

Wanting to reduce abortions is a bipartisan issue and a goal we can likely all agree on. Abortion is a last resort for most women when other measures fail.

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Yet, how we approach reducing abortions is where anti-abortion and pro-choice movements differ and Republicans have been getting this mission wrong for decades.

Texas has blocked access to Planned Parenthood.

For years, Texas Republicans have worked to block women’s access to contraceptives and pregnancy prevention.

In 2011, Texas began a multipronged campaign to cut funding to Planned Parenthood — a service that provides crucial support to women before, during and after pregnancy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/if-texas-republicans-really-care-about-reducing-abortions-they-need-to-stop-blocking-access-to-contraception/ar-AAO6x13

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. The point is not about abortion or contraception. It's about CONTROLLING WOMEN.

Republicans do not trust women, they don't much like us, and they want us under their thumbs.

They want to control us so we won't interfere in how they run the government, industries and other large corporations.

They want to stay in power. Allowing us to enter the political world would mean that they would lose the upper hand in how business and other entities are managed.

They want to return to the 1950's, at least.

They ran the world then, and they liked it. They don't want women in it, and this is how they do that.

I may be wrong, but this is how I see the abortion/contraception issue.

[LakeArenal]

2. But but.... If women get birth control they will take white men's jobs.

Women must be home serving man and gawd.

[Texaswitchy]

4. Yep

Exactly.

Dealt with that in the Union.

[rickyhall]

3. According to the backward repugs, women should be barefoot & pregnant

& keep their mouths shut.

Fuck all them narrowminded backwards walkers, this is the 21st Century, you idiots, not the 15th.