Tim Ryan Quotes
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
Ryan, Tim. "Introduction of the Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion, and Supporting Parents Act." Congressional Record, vol. 152, 21 Sept. 2006.
The first Jew to run for the Vice Presidency on a major party ticket.
The argument she made is that a woman should not be required to risk her life if she does not want to. Other than military conscription, there is no other aspect of American law whereby the society forces a citizen to risk their life.
Actually it was as late as 1963, that the Supreme Court ruled that States could not make the sale of birth control devices or drugs illegal. In many jurisdictions in the United States, women who do not have insurance and cannot afford birth control, there are state and private organizations, like Planned Parenthood, who will provide them. However, some conservative forces are trying to put Planned Parenthood out of business. A few doctors and nurses who perform abortions and proscribe birth control have been murdered by the fanatics. Almost of the so called “pro life” forces not only oppose abortion but contraception and family planning as well. They tactically tend to concentrate first on abortion, but most also believe that the life and death issues are for them the same, as opposed to most American feelings. The literal prohibiting Biblical injunctions are even more specific about birth control than abortion.
Some Republicans were concerned about regulations requiring employers who provide health insurance to cover contraceptives could potentially interfere with their religious freedom if they had religious compunctions about birth control, but their proposed solutions would have denied some women in the work force basic medical care as recommended by almost all health authorities. Some of the strongest male opponents of the regulations had a long standing track record as being against birth control of any kind. Many women then rose up to protest what appeared to them as an attempt to roll back their hard won right to control their own body. The issue became a part of almost any discussion involving women, and advocates of providing all of women with birth control rights and availability showed how it tied in with almost every facet of a woman’s like. In this case, being able to go to and finish college and graduate school which becomes much less likely if a woman gives birth to an unplanned child.
At the time, even with all the barriers that many states placed in the way, over 1 million legal abortions were performed each year.
Timothy John Ryan is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district, elected in 2002. The district, numbered as the 17th district from 2003 to 2013, takes in a large swath of northeast Ohio, from Youngstown to Akron. Ryan is a member of the Democratic Party.
