text: A well-considered, reasoned statement from a woman who personally understands the fundamental nature of reproductive rights and personal autonomy!
  
  To this, I would like to add the following:
  Each day, around the world, roughly 20,000 children under the age of five die due to poverty.  Each. Day.  Yet, despite this continuous, gruesome toll, we hear nothing of this tragedy from GOP politicians, or the right-wing christians who support them.  Instead, we see a continuous barrage of laws intended to limit reproductive rights. Sadly, the fact is that these people don't care about life at all.  If they did, real effort would be made to save the lives of the thousands of children who die each day.  No, the real motivation behind abortion bans is not to save lives at all -- it is simply to control the lives of others.