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Lemon wedges. Crocodile dung. Seaweed. Frogs. In the age before safe, effective birth control, these were the types of options women had to rely on for birth control.
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Americans across the country have shared in their own words the reasons they care so deeply about women's access to birth control.
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"I think that access to birth control is so important because..."
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Control over one's own body is a fundamental part of being human, of being the only species capable of controlling our own destiny.
Chris, China Springs |
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it allows women to control their bodies and lives. I have three children and all were planned on with the use of birth control.
Marc, Abilene |
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it is vitally important that every child be wanted and welcomed into the world. It is important that every woman who bears a child be ready for that childbearing and that she be able to look forward to the birth of her child as the glorious event that it should be. She must be able to plan for the birth of a child when she is ready to support and care for a child and not before. Ready and easy access to birth control is the essential component in this scenario.
Dorothy, Magnolia |
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it reduces the risk of becoming pregnant at a time when one can least afford or desire to become pregnant. There are also health risks for some women- women who have been told by their physicians that becoming pregnant could endanger their or their infant's life. I know of no other effective way to thwart an unwanted pregnancy than than by using effective means to prevent it in the first place. The most important part of this equation is that it be accessable to all women, regardless of one's ability to pay.
Nita, Houston |
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to do anything less is to deny access to women's health care.
Phyllis, Fort Sam Houston |
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All people should have the right to play an active role in making responsible choices about sex and child bearing, and all people suffer when birth control and reproductive health care options are denied. This intimate space must not be the stomping ground for political agendas or moralistic propaganda - it belongs solely to the very real people whose lives are shared within it. In this political climate where the current administration takes great pride in removing itself from citizen's pocketbooks, I find it very curious that it takes such great interest in inserting itself into citizen's bedrooms and doctor's offices. It is the government's responsibility to provide fair and accessible health care - of all kinds - to its citizens.
Rebecca, Dallas |
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Women have the right to choose when, and if, they want children and under what circumstances. Denying access to birth control creates unwanted pregnancies, and that can cause lots of problems, from increased abortions to neglected children.
Farrah, Leander |
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