In the video “Abortion Hotline, This is Lisa,” the viewer gets to see what it’s like to be on the receiving end of these phone calls where women are asking for financial help for abortions. “Approximately one in four Medicaid recipients seeking an abortion carry unintended pregnancies to term because of the Hyde Amendment.” It is so frustrating when someone will project their anti-abortion views on women, but they don’t care about all the children living in severe poverty. If these women call for assistance and say, they can barely afford to have the procedure done, raising a child won’t be any cheaper. In The Ms. Magazine article, Rebecca Gomperts states, “Because if you can prevent abortion, you can keep people poor. And when you keep people poor, you can control them. Poor people have no voice in most places. In any normal-thinking democratic country, you would think, I can decide that for myself, and somebody else can decide that for themselves as well. But the reality is with the way that religion in the U.S., it has been used to restrict people’s rights.” I think this is something important that everyone should think about. The right to an abortion is a human right, and they’re trying to strip that away from us. “When somebody can’t get abortion pills on their own terms, that is a human rights violation. It doesn’t matter what kind of obstacles there are, whether it’s legal, financial, logistical, personal, private, preference—it doesn’t matter. Abortion should be available on your own terms, however you need it, whenever you need it, and in whatever way you need it.”
Lizbeth Molina Reflection 13
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