Women’s Reproductive Health has been an issue for many years and continues to be an issue that still affects women today. Women did not have rights back in the day, with a result of that they did not have control over their health either. Coming to the 21st century women still battle with freedom to make their own decisions, and rights to protect them. Women’s health is super important, whether its maternity care, abortions, women need health coverage to take care of them when they are in need. The fact is people are still trying to get rid of Roe vs. Wade, due to religious beliefs and more. The sad outcome is one day women can wake up and have this right taken away from them.
Abortion has been such an issue throughout years and yet even with the legalization
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Governor Rick Perry wanted to take this all away from women and threaten their health and safety but Wendy Davis stood up for women and save them, for what could have been an injustice. Texas’s EMILY’s List which is one of the largest political action committees, has done everything in its power to protect women in the state of Texas. “Since its founding in 1985, EMILY's List has worked to elect 101 pro-choice Democratic women to the House, 19 to the Senate, 10 governors, and over five hundred women to state and local office. In the 2011-2012 cycle, EMILY's List had the largest number of members and donors in our 28-year history, and raised a record-breaking $52 million dollars” (Targeted News Service). This political action committee has done its best to preserve the rights of women in a Republican state, where they believe abortion, and other health issues for women are wrong and should be taken away. Its committees like these and women like Wendy Davis that stand up for women’s rights and do not take no for an