The website I have chosen to look at is
called Trust Women, an organization
that campaigns to give women the option of abortions as well as parental and
postnatal care. The project is focused mainly on the Midwest of America, where
there is still a huge gap in what treatment can be provided due to various
state laws: for example in Oklahoma, the law prohibits women from elective
abortions (an abortion for any reason other than if the life of the mother is
in danger.) Trust Women takes a
“pro-choice” stance on abortion and aims to set up more clinics in America and share
their vision of a country where women can “control their reproductive lives
without burden.”
The trust was set up in dedication to the
physician George Tiller, who worked for one of the only medical clinics
nationwide to provide late term abortions. This made him a controversial figure
in his home state of Kansas, leading to his assassination by Scott Roeder in
2009. The clinic asks any visitors to their site for donations to carry on the
project in his name and support the funding of more clinics in this area of the
US.
The organization has stirred debate in the
states it has ventured into. In 2013, the group had to react against a planned
protest and prayer vigil by Representative Tim Huelskamp and a group of
anti-choice high school students in Kansas. There has also been lobbying
against various anti-choice state legislatures for the past three years in
Oklahoma and Kansas.
I support the views expressed on the Trust Women foundation. Abortion has
long been a topic of serious debate but arguments against it fail to understand
the human rights violation against women. For women to have full control of
their bodies is critical to civil rights; if the government can force a woman
to go ahead with an unwanted pregnancy then what is stopping them from enforcing
contraception on them or sterilization? It is difficult to argue against the
use of abortion when in the cases of rape and domestic violence, clinics like Trust Women are offering a safe
alternative. The work done at these clinics are safe medical procedures, backed
up by counseling and support groups to stop the increase of unwanted
pregnancies. With the increase of these groups, I’m sure there would be a
decrease in the need for them in this area over a period of time, altogether
making better progress on the issue than any anti-choice groups have ever done.
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