Planned Parenthood

Besides providing abortion, Planned Parenthood is a worldwide program that educates men and women about sex and also provides healthcare. I don’t think that funding should be taken away from it because teens should be educated about this and not just by their parents. I say that because sometimes teens do not listen to what their parents have to say and therefore they don’t see the reality that’s out there. With Planned Parenthood, teens are able to understand things from other people’s perspective. They also help women have easy access to contraceptives, for low costs, that help prevent pregnancies. If Texas takes away funding from this, they would have to be a private organization which would mean less access and possibly more teen pregnancies.

The main reason why Texas (mainly the Republican Party) want to take the funding away from this is because they don't support abortion. But abortion is only about 3% of what they do; and the rest of it basically information and healthcare. Women have the right to do whatever they want with their body and if that means abortion, then so be it. I don’t think that anyone should have a baby if they’re not ready. If you do it early enough, the “thing” (baby, if you will) does not have a central nervous system developed, therefore it cannot feel and won’t hurt it.

If Texas takes away funding from this organization I think there will be more problems such as STD’s and less informed people. Therefore more pregnancies and even more debt.

Smoking in Texas

Side note: this is on a count of blog stage 3

In the article "Texas' smoking habit costs us billions" in the Austin American-Statesman, the author talks about a legislation trying to be passed to ban smoking in private places. They believe that this will save us a lot of money in health care and fires.
They also states that the people who do smoke, shouldn't go out saying that they have the right to smoke because someone can easily counter that by saying that they have the right to breath clean air. Both of these statements are true because we all have the right to do whatever we want with our bodies. However smoking is a big exception because there have been many many people that have died by smoking cigarets. The people who smoke know this, so why are they constanly killing themselves?
The rest of the article says that the bills, if passed, would prohibit smoking in public places with the exemption of few. Finally, at the end they say that the bill "...deserves support because they save lives and money." I agree with that because smoking tobacco is a very dangerous habit, not only to yourself but to others around you also.