A letter I wrote to Indiana's Attorney General Greg Zoeller
To Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller:
Why is it necessary for you moneyed politicians to continue to treat lower-income individuals, especially lower-income women, like unwanted mangy dogs? The lower-income women going to Family Planning for their women's health services and birth control are trying to be responsible with their health and their procreative powers. They are trying to keep from needing abortions which is what you people claim is the issue with funding Family Planning. Oh, that's right. It's okay. They can always go to the women's prison, the Salvation Army, a mental health center or wherever those pitiful impoverished women can find to take care of their feminine health needs. That argument would be a better sell if all of you showed the women in your lives going to those places for their feminine health needs. Take your wives and daughters of age to the women's prison or the Salvation Army for their pap smears, breast exams, and birth control. Be sure to have them share their experiences with the public to reassure those women defunded from Family Planning that their feminine health needs are in good hands in those alternatives. I'm sure it'll be an adjustment from whatever posh doctor's office they're used to but it's no big deal.
Leave Family Planning's funding alone. Don't appeal this last ruling. Family Planning is not some posh doctor's office. It's just a simple place where lower-income women feel secure in responsibly seeking care for their feminine health needs. And also, if you people do appeal then end up winning then the state will end up losing potentially billions of dollars in Medicaid funding which will again negatively impact, well--none of you.
