“Planned Parenthood May Have Saved My Life”

Hillary Nelson shares a moving tale of living in New York, with “almost no money and no health insurance,” and having a precancerous condition discovered and treated by doctors at Planned Parenthood. Then she confronts the Executive Councilors who refused to renew the state’s contract with Planned Parenthood.

They’re taking a calculated risk that the tens of thousands of under-insured and uninsured poor women who rely on the organization don’t follow politics and that the rest of us can’t figure out that their stupidity will cost us more money in the end, not less.

But come the next election they’ll discover there are a lot of women in their districts like me, who were young once, and careless, and poor, who relied on Planned Parenthood. Who perhaps even had their lives saved by Planned Parenthood.

We’re older now, and wiser. Maybe even a little richer.

And we vote.

The personal is political.