Thirty Years

For at least thirty consecutive years in the lives of most women and girls, reproductive life is economic life.
Will your children be born the year after you begin med school?
Will your children be born the first year after you pass the bar?
Will you be in your ninth month of pregnancy when you take your beauty school licensing
exams?
Will you still be serving drinks when you have to pay a babysitter twice what she was charging
before you had twins?
Will you get to retirement if you are finally back at university when your son has an accident at age twenty-one? By then, you are forty-five,and he needs to be cared for at home for an indeterminate
amount of time. That is, having a child is often a lifetime commitment. So shouldn't a woman make
some money, plan to make some money, for a certain amount of years she has specified for herself?
Don't believe protecting your reproductive rights are different from planning your education and
economic future. Those two spheres in your existence enjoy nearly total overlap, especially if you
care at all about doing well with your education, your children, and your career.
Perhaps even more important than simple reproductive rights, are reproductive health rights.
We will always need our governing bodies to insure we get safe, clean services for whatever health
initiative we choose.
While politicians are so focused on restriction and control- who is minding the real store of whether
safe practices are actually the norm in the reproductive health requests we have of today's professionals?