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by:  ndurham86
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 1:19:00 AM EDT
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This article discusses the new Health care Reform and how it is good for the United States and how it has some setbacks. The Health care Reform Bill will provide women with needed health care services; unfortunately the bill restricts abortion coverage, which is not right. I feel that all women should have the choice to terminate their pregnancy if they choose to. I could not kill my child if I got pregnant; however I still think that the choice should still be there! Congress put that stupid Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program into the Health care Reform, which is an ineffective program, which is statistically proven to be a flawed program. I cannot believe that Congress wants to spend $250 million dollars on a program that does not work. Talk about being fiscally liberal! Congress only allocated $ 75,000 to comprehensive sex education, which actually works. I am a peer educator and HIV/AIDS advocate and I am appalled at our government for reinstating Title V. I just got back from Washington DC lobbying for comprehensive sex education, which includes the REAL Act and the Global Sexual Reproductive Health Act of 2010. This article really got to me, I guess because I am trying to make a difference by lobbying and educating my peers about sexual reproductive health issues.

http://www.aclu.org/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/new-health-care-legislation-includes-troubling-setbacks-reproduct

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