Some of the stories I hear about women trying to access abortion centers are appalling. Young victims of sexual assault who are forced to travel thousands of miles, then pay thousands of dollars just so that they can get a procedure done that is still completely legal. Then, to hear that doctors are told to tell women inaccurate information about the procedure. Women have the right to accurate medical advice about a procedure, and should not be forced to travel to extremes to get this performed.

The Supreme Court this week ruled against the laws set up in Texas to regulate abortions. Basically Roe vs. Wade is no longer the most important ruling when it comes to abortion; it is Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, which made it legal to place restrictions on abortions as long as it did not cause a burden on women. T.R.A.P. laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) are regulations designed to help women and make abortions safer. Specifically, the laws in Texas or HB-2 required that all abortion clinics meet the same building standards as outpatient surgical centers and that the doctors have hospital admitting privileges. This meant that a great number of abortion clinics were shut down, and that now many women had no access to safe abortions.

Abortion is a legal procedure, and I am sorry to all of you who do not believe in abortion but that is the truth. Now, while abortion is legal there are many women who have no access to have one safely performed. There are women who have been sexually assaulted, or might die if the pregnancy comes to term, and these laws are forcing them into either paying thousands of dollars to get to a clinic that perform abortions or to let the pregnancy come to term and have a child.

This choice is something that no women should ever have to make. Abortion should not just be "sort of legal" it should be fully legal. These T.R.A.P laws are just another way of inhibiting abortion, which is illegal. Personally, I believe that every woman should have the right to choose what she wants to do with her body. I feel that I do not have the right to force a woman to do something that she doesn't want to.

This ruling by the Supreme Court will hopefully deter all other laws like this one. Every woman has the right to proper health care, and these women's centers provide that. I applaud the Supreme Court for stopping people from giving women the right to choose for themselves what is right for them and their bodies.