An Opinion of women's outlook if Rick Perry is elected President

In this passionate blog post by Mean Rachel, she gives her version of possible events, and legislature change for Texas and the rest of the states, if Rick Perry is elected president in 2012. "Mean Rachel" is a democratic Austin activist who writes for the Huffington Post, as well as Universities in the Austin area. Rachel starts out the article describing what it was like in her experience to grow up having Rick Perry as Governor, and how she feels he has done nothing good for the woman of Texas. She then launches into a scenario of Perry enforcing, or trying to enforce abstinence instead of birth control.  Perry himself has admitted that his theory of abstinence has not seemed to make any improvements, but that he still backs it. He plans on putting forth laws that prevent insurance companies from covering birth control. That goes along with the new bill he passed requiring a sonogram and audio to be played before a woman can go through with an abortion. Rachel states her opinion that the abortion bill is Perry's way of "punishing" women for not abstaining from sex. Furthermore, if women opt to go through with the pregnancy, Mean Rachel reminds her readers that Texas is currently number one in the nation for adults without diplomas, as well as children without health insurance. As a last blow, the article states that these problems will only become worse as the infants born from this bill become older, first as uninsured children, and then an adult without a diploma.

Although Rachel has a very harsh and in someways over exaggerated view of Texas woman's future, I feel that she brings up some very good points. It is a widely known fact that Texas is number one in uninsured children, and has one of the highest percentages of people employed in minimum wage jobs. If Rick Perry is elected President in 2012, the bills that he has put into place have a very good chance of spreading, and increasing in their strictness. Making it harder to obtain birth control, and to receive abortions is only going to push Texas back to the days of back alley abortions, and speak easy style birth control: knock three times, slip a $20 under a door and pills come out a minute later. Other woman may choose to go out of state for a procedure, and take more money with them. It's a slippery slope that Perry has us sliding on and if changes aren't made, then the ramifications may not be seen until it is years too late to fix.