RoseZ's Search for Woman's Idenity: Blog 9

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Blog 9

Planned Parenthood

I support Planned Parenthood this organization supports those who wish to have control over reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases. It is a natural right to be able to determine how one's body is used and having babies is a big project for the female body. The child shoves everything else aside and takes what space and substances it needs. It is much like a parasite. I think that every woman has the right to say how many times her body gets used this way.

Planned Parenthood is a related organization that lobbies the U.S. political system for pro-choice legislation, comprehensive sex education, and access to affordable health care during and after pregnancy.

The organization has it roots in Brooklyn, New York where Margaret Sanger opened the country's first birth control clinic in 1916. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which changed it name to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. in 1942.

Sanger went to jail 7-8 times for her stand for birth control which she had reasons for as described on the right side of this blog.

Dealing with sexuality, the organization is often the centre of controversy in the United States. The organization's status as the country's leading provider of surgical abortions has put it in the forefront of national debate over the issue. Planned Parenthood has also been a party in numerous Supreme Court cases.

Cecile Richards is the present president of the organization.

Planned Parenthood have provided access to birth control to those who cannot afford it. Abortion is a personal choice. If birth control was used an abortion most likely would never be necessary. There are and always be those which are necessary; to save a mother's life, to aide a child or adult woman of rape residue, and those which nature has caused the death of a fetus.

But to end the right to choice to just these considerations is wrong. No one has the right to force another to have an unwanted child.

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I am Woman Helen Reddy 1975

Helen Reddy "I Am Woman!" I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore And I know too much to go back an' pretend 'cause I've been down there on the floor No one's ever gonna keep me down again CHORUS: Oh yes I am wise But it's wisdom born of pain Yes, I've paid the price But look how much I gained If I have to, I can do anything I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible) I am woman You can bend but never break me 'cause it only serves to make me More determined to achieve my final goal And I come back even stronger Not a novice any longer 'cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul CHORUS: I am woman watch me grow See me standing toe to toe As I spread my lovin' arms across the land But I'm still an embryo With a long long way to go Until I make my brother understand Oh yes I am wise But it's wisdowm born of pain Yes, I've paid the price But look how much I gained If I have to I can face anything I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible) I am woman Oh, I am woman I am invincible I am strong FADE I am woman I am invincible I am strong I am woman

l Reasons for fighting for birth control /Margaret Sanger

"I looked out my window and down upon the dimly lighted city. Its pains and griefs crowded in upon me, a moving picture rolled before my eyes with photographic clearness: women writhing in travail to bring forth little babies; the babies themselves naked and hungry, wrapped in newspapers to keep them from the cold; six-year-old children with pinched, pale, wrinkled faces, old in concentrated wretchedness, pushed into gray and fetid cellars, crouching on stone floors, their small scrawny hands scuttling through rags, making lamp shades, artificial flower; white coffins, black coffins, coffins interminably passing in never-ending succession. The sense piled one upon another aon another. I could bear it no longer... I went to bed, knowing that no matter what it might cost, I was finished with palliatives and superficial cures; I was resolved to seek out the root of evil, to do something to change the destiny of mothers whose miseries were vast as the sky." Margaret Sanger; recalling the death of a New York City woman who begged Sanger for the "secret" of preventing pregnancy.

Another Reason for fighting for birth control

Margaret Sanger's mother was pregnant eighteen times: eleven children, seven miscarriages, and was dead at age forty-nine. This is not an uncommon story in the nineteenth-century America. Sanger became an obstetrical nurse...on the Lower East Side of New York, where birth control was simply not available for the poor immigrant women there, and she saw one too many women go to the back alley for an abortion or self-abort with a knitting needle or a shoe hook or undiluted Lysol, and woman after woman literally died in my ;grandmother's arms and ;she said enough, there's got to be something better we can do. quoted from Alex Sanger; Margaret Sanger's grandson.