Letters: Don’t obstruct our rights

I am a young women who is about to graduate from Ithaca College, and looking for a job that supports my health. I am outraged about Trump administration’s actions to disassemble the Affordable Care Act. This has nothing to do with religion and employees should feel supported by the people they are working for.

Birth control is not controversial, and it is unbelievable to me that in 2017 insurance coverage for birth control is up for debate. As an advocate for women in college and living away from home, reproductive health care is between me and my home doctor. It scares me to know that away from home, my reproductive rights are in the hands of the president. This is a fundamental right to be able to decide whether and when you want to have children. And personally, I don’t want to have to call my baby another one of Trump’s accidents.

I am writing for myself, my friends, my peers, my family and all of the women who NEED birth control to live a happy and healthy life. Just because women’s reproductive parts are different than men, does not give them the right to obstruct our rights.

Charlotte Hadley
Ithaca