Please
stop saying that you voted for Trump and other conservative politicians or will
vote for Roy Moore because they are against abortion. If this is your one important
issue, you should have been and should be demanding your elected officials:
1.
Increase
spending on education, especially girls’ education.
2.
Increase
girls’ sports and afterschool activities. Share the football money a little
more.
3.
Provide
clear and scientific sex education in all schools (public, private, parochial
and home schooling). More than “keep your pants on” abstinence. At home, you
would talk to your children honestly and openly about sex, sexuality, and
procreation, especially your boys.
4.
Support
Planned Parenthood and other agencies that provide education and medical
services. Planned Parenthood prevents more abortions per year than your politicians
and sign waving.
5.
Support
research into women’s health issues and give tax breaks for research that
reduces unwanted pregnancies rather than little blue pills.
6.
Increase
health care and insurance for all Americans because having good health care
decreases unwanted pregnancies. Provide Prenatal, Postnatal training and affordable
childcare.
7.
Provide
support for girls and women who become pregnant, whether planned or unplanned.
If you don’t want abortions, you should ease the path for the child to be born.
8.
Provide
support for mothers who want to keep unplanned children.
9.
Allow
for easy adoptions of children whose mothers choose to not raise them.
10. Assist men in becoming and
remaining better parents. (Education helps) Enforce child support by fathers when
they won’t.
11. Reduce the stigma of unwanted pregnancies. In
your community, schools and churches, you would fight for teens and young
adults who become pregnant and reduce the judgment and condemnation of these
women.
12. Respect women and girls! Treat them
equally, or maybe even better, than men and boys.
However,
the actions of your elected officials, mostly Republican, have been adverse to
all of these important actions to reduce and end abortions. If this is your
primary reason for voting, you’re not getting the results you want from these
people. You’d reduce more abortions by voting for Democrats and Progressives.
So,
why are you really voting for Trump, Moore and the other old, white men who
have no respect for women?
