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Re: Protect Reproductive Freedom, End Underage Marriage, and Improve and Mandate Reproductive Education
Please do all that you can to protect reproductive rights and freedoms, and the clinics that serve the poor and any person who shows up in need of whatever ob/gyn services they need. It's easy to forget that the same service provided to the financially stable are ignored by protesters from the ""pro-life"" group. An increase in unwanted or unhealthy newborns among those who cannot afford to take care of them, or are uninterested or unable to do so, serves no one. Our current child placement system for surrendered youth is not in such excellent shape so as to be able to handle a huge influx in need. CPS will require much more funding. Programs such as WIC and CHIP will require a massive increase in funds. Taxpayers will face a huge financial burden to raise the surrendered infants to adulthood.
But please do vote for mandatory protections and full and complete coverage for every pregnant person. No matter if the pregnancy is healthy or a complete attack on the individual, there should be no limit to the care that person receives to get back to healthy. This includes mental and emotional health as well. 100% coverage for all, no matter the outcome, from the moment the pregnancy test is positive.
And please create a national minimum marital age no lower than the adulthood age to be held accountable for signed contracts, purchase alcohol, get a tattoo without parental approval, and rent automobiles. Anyone not old enough, mature enough, or responsible enough to do THOSE things is certainly not prepared for marriage, civil unions, or other lifetime binding commitments between consenting adults. It's time to stop bad parents from selling off their "child brides" in this country. And to prevent them from having their children impregnated to get around current regulations.
It is time to put more effort into educating people about consent. Especially young men. It's time to create far better reproductive health classes with better biological research and facts, and for the Department of Education to take that seriously and require such knowledge be assessed and verified before a child is permitted to go on to high school, or be eligible for a GED, or a seat as an elected official! There is a serious gap in education and knowledge among many elected officials in America. They're being asked to pass laws regulating something which they might have had no or incorrect education about, and that must be stopped.
Please vote to give science a chance to help our country before many citizens are alienated by foolish laws with no root in provable or true reality.
