Dear Austin Chronicle, Please help educate college women on how to best protect their uteruses in the voting booth. As a woman living in Texas, I feel confident commenting on what a scary time it is for the uteruses of women in Texas and across the United States. Gov. Perry is aiming to cut Texas’ Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which would prevent 130,000 low-income Texan women from accessing birth control and life-saving health screenings. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney recently said, “Planned Parenthood, we're getting rid of that," effectively promising to eliminate a service used by people of every race, class, and gender in the United States. With politicians (mostly male, middle-aged, and white) at both the state and national level taking actions that affect the health and well-being of women, the time is ripe to help women learn which politicians are on their side so they may make informed decisions in November. College students are historically underrepresented at the voting booth. The Austin Chronicle, a newspaper read by many college students, is an ideal platform for circulating an unbiased, fact-focused voters' guide targeted at educating college-age women on which politicians (state and federal) are ready to protect their uteruses. As a graduate student myself, I would be happy to have access to such information in one convenient place.
Sincerely, Tovah Pentelovitch A concerned female graduate student