A statement on abortion from the League of Women Voters and other organizations
The Pueblo Chieftain
The four organizations who have signed this letter believe every U.S. resident should have access to affordable, quality health care, including birth control and the privacy to make reproductive choices. As an ally of organizations representing minority populations, as well as reproductive rights organizations, the League or Women Voters knows that safe access to health care, including abortion, is essential to our democracy.
Not only is the right to a safe and legal abortion a matter of personal freedom, it’s also a major factor in the movements for racial and economic equality. Black women and all underserved communities already experience inequitable barriers and limited access to adequate health care services. They also are more likely to depend on government-funded resources such as Medicaid and SNAP. Many of the communities targeted with voter suppression are the same ones who will be most impacted if reproductive freedom is also taken away.
We are concerned for the welfare of children born into difficult circumstances or with serious birth defects whose mothers haven’t the resources to find expensive, neonatal medical solutions.
The foster care system struggles to accommodate present needs. We have no safety nets for it; there are very few assurances that the fathers will take responsibility. How much worse will this system get, if a significant number of unwanted or medically complicated children are added?
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care about the people who will be and who are currently adversely affected by these horrific changes.
They are on the wrong side of history, but our people will be the ones who pay the price for their vicious thinking and their extreme lack of caring.
