WARR: Women and Allies Rising in Resistance

I just went to this meeting tonight and I am pumped! This group of people is going to be so positive for my life right now! They are responsible for forming events such as "Take Back the Night" among other really exciting initiatives. I can't wait to be fully involved in everything to make an impact! There are a lot of really messed up things going on right now in this world and if I can have any sort of hand in making it better or making it right I want to take that opportunity and run with it.

I want to help Planned Parenthood as much as I can too right now. They are having a really rough time with the recent federal fund cuts to their organization. I'm just so glad that I finally found a way to help my fellow women!

America 2011: War on Women

America has taken a giant leap backward and cracked her head open on the pavement spilling the blood of innocent women everywhere. This is a dramatic interpretation of my view on the “republicans in the House of Representatives [who] are mounting an assault on women’s health and freedom that would deny millions of women access to affordable contraception and life-saving cancer screenings and cut nutritional support for millions of newborn babies in struggling families” (nytimes.com editorial). The only reason why they want to cut the funding is because of the fact that Planned Parenthood provides abortions. The United States republican politicians who are in power are trying to control women’s bodies. Again. It is 2011 and my optimistic ideals are being crushed by this country. What would Margaret Sanger say today? She fought for women’s rights to contraceptives and sexual health care as a way to avoid abortion which makes sense; but how can people avoid abortion if their rights to affordable birth control are being stripped slowly away?

Cynthia Burack makes it clear in her book Sin, Sex and Democracy that the main players in the fight against gay rights are the religious right. Those same actors seem to be playing a similar roll in the fight against women’s rights as well. The fact that the religious republicans of the country are the ones trying to strip away the funding of Planned Parenthood as well as make outlandish laws regarding abortion, confirms Burack’s vision of the religious right having only one agenda and that is the purification of humans who reproduce heterosexually within the marital institution and nothing else.

Morals are not more important than life itself and the religious right is trying to pass it off that way. ‘It is alright if you are on drugs or are homeless or were raped by someone you trusted, just have the baby anyway – that is obviously the right choice for your mental and physical health; that is what God would want, you know.’ That is what I am taking from these people who think they know what is best for my body.

Click Here to read an article my mom sent me from the NY Times. It's really interesting.