Free will is the ability to act at one’s own discretion, but that’s not always the case in certain situations. We are the one’s who decide what’s best for us, but what is the “best” we actually need? What makes it ok for our decision to be taken into account? With these questions in mind we can look at the topic of abortion which has been a very popular topic around the nation because not all of us agree to understand how this could be good for some but bad to others.
On Tuesday May 5th, a bill was passed that prohibited Health Insurance coverage for abortions, not including those with medical emergencies. Senator Larry Taylor proposed the bill and passed with a 21-10 vote which gave Texas the “choice” to pay for someone's abortion. Given the fact that we all now have the option to pay for “helping” or “ruining” a person’s life, it raises the thought of what will people actually do with this new bill?
We have the option, the will, to choose not to help these cases of abortion by deciding where our money will go, but what if this was about vasectomies, a category that most of us just see as medical. Going back to the previous questions, it seems only fair that we see abortion as helping someone who can’t afford to give a life to a child. Many couples don’t know what’s best for them but those that do need a little help from the rest of us. I think we can agree that this bill work like a filter, it takes away the unworkable cases and only leaves those with “medical emergencies”. But shouldn’t it be up to us to decide weather to bring a life into this world? It seems like the Republican party has it all figured out again for us or maybe just a small part of us. These decisions should be personal, and shouldn’t have to be filtered or put into certain categories.
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