By Antonio Dorsey
New York Times endorsement
of Barack Obama states that Romney "says he is not opposed to
contraception, but he has promised to deny federal money to Planned Parenthood,
on which millions of women depend for family planning." And while Romney
has said that he makes exceptions in his prolife views for women who are
victims of rape or incest, his pick for a running mate, Paul Ryan, is opposed
to legal abortion in all cases. While
supposedly Romney is aiming to get rid of parent planhood which offers help to
those who need help with the topic of course, parenting. Also Mitt has also
vowed to eliminate abortion and things of such nature that support it.
The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0%
per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women
an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year. Among 34 cases of
rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted
from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. Only 11.7% of these victims
received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no
medical attention related to the rape. With this being said there are over
thirty two thousand female rape victims in the United States every year and if
they aren’t able to abort children that they haven’t even asked for what will
then happen to the population that is being criticized so badly? It is said
that immigrants make up a huge part of the population and that it’s hard to get
the situation sorted out while there is also the imposing threat of America
becoming over populated with there being more births than deaths every day and
the ratio to those being born to those being killed is raised even higher in
favor of births what will be the next to go? Food, Environment, or even our
Economy? If Romney is so worried about what women are doing that have been
wrongly violated then why isn’t he worried about the future of women and the
rest of the population as well?
It was fascinating (not in the best kind of way), but still fascinating the percent of women that in total are violated in a case of rape in the United States. This being said, the women definitely should have the right to decide whether or no they would like to keep the baby. Although Obama fully believes in this case, it also goes to say that Mitt Romney is correct in saying that dismissing the life of an unborn child, is wrong. Maybe it is true that Mitt Romney should focus more on the women in the population, but to prejudice against the fact that he is not focusing on us women in other categories of concern is wrong. When he talks about the population he includes women in the fact that we are equal to men. Yes, Obama stresses the believe on abortion, which I do understand in the case of rape, but Mitt Romney is trying to take in the consideration of not destroying the life a child who is not born and taking into account the women who just want an abortion because they got pregnant. Should they really be able to get an abortion if they made the mistake? I don't really take a specific side on this because I do believe in parts of each, but I do agree that in the case of rape, the mother should have the choice.
ReplyDeleteI think what Mitt Romney is doing is right. No matter what your opinions are, I think we can all agree that ending the life of a human, in cases of abortion is wrong. That being said I do think that if the women was raped, or their life would be threatened by having a baby, then abortion can be okay. But in all other cases I think it is wrong and should not happen.
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney said only under those circumstances is abortion okay, and I remember Paul Ryan actually saying that abortions were only okay in cases of rape, incest or if the mother's life was threatened. He said this during the Vice Presidential debate.
But taking this all into account, I think that women who place their vote, on only this topic have bigger things to worry about. People should be more concerned with our national debt, and our nations agenda, rather than being able to receive government funded contraceptives.