How can I support Ron Paul, I'm asked by my feminist friends, when he doesn't believe in choice?
1) Ron Paul is an OB/GYN who has delivered over 4000 babies so he has a vested interest in life. I can't fault him for that although I don't agree.
2) Ron Paul knows that Roe V Wade was an overreach by the USSC and laws belong at the State level.
3) With Roe V Wade in effect, some southern States have already caused most clinics to close by adding restrictions, financial burdens, waiting periods requiring two separate trips and expensive emergency room equipment even if the clinic is less than a block from the hospital.
4) We are faced with loss of choice today with either an Amendment or restrictions making clinics impossible to operate.
5) Reproductive rights groups, dependent on federal funds, toss like ships in the wind as they comply first to one administration's rules and then another.
What is my solution?
Not surprisingly, my solution is voluntary and uses the Internet. Create a website for women who cannot afford access and match up them with those who donate. This way, blue State abortion clinics which have always been legal can service red State patients without the hassles, the pickets or the danger in the red States.
Planned parenthood would be a good place to start but they might have to denounce the golden handcuffs from the federal government. If Ron Paul gets elected and the income tax goes away, we will have much more to donate directly to our causes.
I would also recommend that the women be asked to sign a note promising to repay all or part of the procedure and the travel. A payment schedule set up with a modest interest rate would replenish the travel fund coffers. There is no free lunch and we don't want to encourage dependency -- so expect personal responsibility for the help they received in their time of need.
Many women would make donations monthly.
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