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On the recordMarch 7, 2012
At a speak-out on women's right to birth control, I solicited comments from the huge audience that attended, and here are a few. Reverend Luke Pepper writes: As a Christian and as a minister, I believe that it is important and necessary that we promote the quality of health care and livelihood of the families in this country. Providing access and availability of quality contraception to women is the right and moral thing to do. A young anonymous woman wrote: I'm a virgin. I take birth control because I have polycystic ovary syndrome, and it will reduce my risk of uterine cancer. Diane writes: My oldest son is on the autism spectrum. Nearly 6 years after he was born, my husband and I judged our family ready to support and nurture a second child. If, through the lack of access to birth control, we had been forced to risk an unplanned pregnancy before we were ready, we would not have had the resources--financial or emotional--to give our older son the care and support he needed that enabled him to become the fine young man he is. Nor would we have been able to devote full care and attention to his beloved young brother. ____________________
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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