Women fought 100 years to gain their rights. It wasn’t until March of 1972 that the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress; since then, 37 states ratified the Amendment.
Yet even after gaining their rights, women don’t have the right to make their own choices. Six states have passed trigger laws that try to ban abortion in the first and second trimesters. Alabama wanted to pass a law banning abortion at any state of pregnancy with no exceptions for pregnancy resulting in rape and incest. A baby born as the result of close incest has a 50 percent chance of suffering an early death, severe birth defects or some mental deficiency.
The states should not be able to decide for a woman; it is her body and her right.
