Persuasive Essay On Planned Parenthood

Over the years women have been seen as a man’s property. A man has always known that his perceived natural rights entail a wife, her body, children, and a job. Essentially a twisted form of the American Dream right, but what if the clock is sped up to when women start gaining the confidence to fight for their rights? History has witnessed women gaining the right to vote, the ability to work alongside men, and to have their own house without a husband. For the next century women slowly gained recognition along with rights until the controversy over the funding of Planned Parenthood arose. Women need Planned Parenthood to help them make the correct medical decisions about their body based on proper medical advice; this organization has helped many women across the nation. The government plans to defund it because they think they own a women’s body. This is false; women own their bodies, not a governing body, a man, or even another woman. The …show more content…
Women also have the right to speak for her own body and protest against the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the 1st Amendment. These are basic rights that are being taken away just because of one person’s apparent superior experience. This is not acceptable for men to be making these decisions for women across the nation. It is also not acceptable for the women in Congress to be voting with the men. Shouldn’t we, as a female race, support one another’s rights? It is very difficult still for a woman to receive the proper recognition she deserves. Women deserve to make their own decisions and deserve to speak for their bodies. Obviously times have changed and the rights of women have progressed significantly, but there is always one hold up. In today’s society there should not be the ominous “but” in a sentence regarding women’s rights. The defunding of Planned Parenthood affects not only women’s rights as a whole but also their right to seek medical