Reproductive Choice

I think reproductive choice/reproductive rights are very important to women. It is more than the right to have an abortion; it is the right to safe and affordable birth control methods, access to reproductive health care and the right against forced sterilization. Most of the time people think of reproductive choice as the right to have an abortion, but they aren’t looking at the whole picture. It’s much more than that. It involves the ability to plan out reproduction. If a woman doesn’t want to be pregnant but is sexually active then she should have access to affordable birth control methods and health care. This means that there will be fewer abortions since women have access to other ways to prevent pregnancy. It is important to understand that reproductive choice involves having choices in all stages of your life. It can be used to prevent pregnancies, to help get pregnant, and to make sure women always has access to reproductive health care. The problem is that most people think of it as only the right to have an abortion so they don’t support reproductive choice if they are against abortions. People need to understand that its more than that and that it deserves government funding to ensure that everyone (no matter what race and socioeconomic background) has access to reproductive options.