keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:What Marcia Ball wrote yesterday on the Seeing Red Texas rally’s FB p

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus: What Marcia Ball wrote yesterday on the Seeing Red Texas rally’s FB page about continuing the Tuesday protests indefinitely.  [NB: All of this affects more people than just cis women] Marcia here: It’s so exciting that SEEING RED will continue on Tuesdays apparently indefinitely. For me, during the next two weeks it’s hi-ho, hi-ho, off to work I go, so I won’t be there to rouse the rabble but my carload of signs will be and my insidious comments. Honestly, with every claim Perry makes about the amount of services the Women’s Health Program isn’t losing and how they’re goingto find the money but not how they’re going to open clinics to replace the ones that have closed, I just start SEEING RED all over again. Please carry on and I will be back April 10, April 17 and April 24. Noon to 2 PM. Congress Avenue and 11th Street. Maybe Kay Bailey Hutchison will join us.If you can only write to one State Representative this week, I suggest Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center who says, “we kind of blend being anti-abortion with being anti-Planned Parenthood”. I might add, and you don’t care who gets hurt while you do it.My reasons for jumping into the Women’s Health Program fray had nothing to do with Planned Parenthood. I just couldn’t believe that we could sit by and watch a bunch of zealots destroy a perfectly good system of health care delivery to low-income women. But now, more than ever, I believe that Planned Parenthood deserves my support.From the Guttmacher Institute: Abortion is a common experience: about one in three American women will have had an abortion by the time she reaches age 45. In 2008, there were 1,793 abortion providers in the United States. Thirty-four percent (611) of these providers were hospitals and nineteen percent (341) were private doctors’ offices but these providers only performed five percent of abortions done that year. And I’ll tell you why. Because you need money to get an abortion at a hospital or doctor’s office. That’s $350 - $550. And I’ll wager that many women who have the money don’t go to their regular doctor for an abortion but to one of the 840 clinics where abortions are available. Almost two-thirds of insurance companies cover abortion to some degree. Only poor people can’t get abortions easily. And now they can’t even get birth control or a pap smear.So, people like Wayne Christian, who can vote to end health care for Texas women based on his veneration of all life but who is apparently also pro-death penalty, should drop their insurance, penalize their hospitals and fire their doctors just in case one of them is affiliated with an abortion provider. Honestly I’m already wearing the brightest, red-est shirt I own. See you down there! TODAY NOON - 2PM TEXAS STATE CAPITOL WEAR RED. BRING SIGNS. -- source link

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