Ourselves, Our Daughters

I wrote this to swing voters in Missouri and Ohio on behalf of Planned Parenthood:

I have a 20-month old daughter and the outcome of this election is very important, on so many levels, not just for me but for her.  I worry that if our country elects another anti-choice candidate like George Bush, which McCain is, he will continue the relentless replacement of federal jurists with men like Samuel Alito and John J Roberts. The may overturn Roe v Wade, and possibly Connecticut v Griswold, and God forbid that my daughter is in a position in 15 or 20 years, while these jurists still control the courts, that she cannot obtain safe and legal reproductive health care.  I worry that my daughter will not have access to birth control, when the time comes (hopefully later than sooner!), because McCain and Palin will staff the FDA with fundamentalists who will block reproductive medicine, not based on science but on their wrong-headed beliefs.  And I worry that despite what I teach her at home, her classmates will have no idea how the reproductive system works or how to prevent themselves from derailing their lives in high school because McCain/Palin think that teaching about abstinence is the only kind of sex education that is acceptable.  So I worry, and I cross my fingers for an Obama presidency in 2008.  Not just for me, but for my daughter.