Abortion

The video our class watched on abortion in Mississippi was disturbing to me because there are groups that sit outside of clinics and try to persuade women to not get an abortion. Although they are excercising their right to free speech, it's hindering the women's right to potentially improve her future. Depending on their financial situation, or age, bringing a baby into a world that won't be cared for properly, isn't right. I do think that health care should cover abortion. Regardless of other's beliefs, why should a pregnant, poverished, young girl, not be given the financial coverage to have an abortion. Those who don't believe in it, just won't use health care for that reason. With the lack of clinics in Mississipi, abortions are limited, and women are rejected their natural born right to improve their health, and life. Besides abortion, their are many things that tax payers pay towards something they don't agree with or believe in, such as war. As a woman, I would like to know that, if I'm pregnant but my life can't sustain having a child, that I would be given that right to recieve an abortion. These groups on the video go around excercising their right of free speech, but they feel the need to restrict other women's rights because they believe they're in the right for protecting the life of a child. They don't know anything of a stranger, their financial situation, and it's disturbing to think that someone in Mississippi could be able to tell a woman in Illinois that their right to an abortion, is no longer. The legal status of abortion should be that it's allowed, but not past a certain amount of time. I think that if a woman were to have an abortion at seven or eight months, that's too late, and could wait another month or two to give birth to the baby. Overall, the video we watched really upset me and at the same time made me less hopeful for women's rights in the future.If these groups continue to rant about what they believe to be the sinful act of abortion, and become successful in their quest for making America pro-life, I'm moving.