Choice

Today is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Sit back for a moment and think about that. 35 years. It seems like both such a short time and like forever. To celebrate each year a Blog For Choice Day is taken to flood the internet with stories, news, opinions, and calls to action encouraging us to protect a woman’s right to choose. This year they are asking everyone involved to share why it is important to vote pro-choice.

I’ll come out with the disclaimer first, before the flood of “murderer” and “baby killer” starts rolling in. I am anti-abortion. Honestly, I have never in my life met a person who is pro-abortion. Despite the claims of the anti-choice crowd no one is really out there trying to encourage more abortions. We all want life just as much you you do. But this issues goes beyond life and death, it is about choice. A woman’s right to choose how her body will be used.

I wish I had the magic button explaination that would make it seem so clear. I’ve read it explained a million times in ways that anyone should be able to see. And yet the debate rages on. Life, death, sex, they are all pieces that get in the way of the point. CHOICE

A woman’s body is her own. You don’t own it any more than her husband, father, brother, congresssman, president owns it. Each and every human being owns their own body. And with that personal ownership comes personal choice. Right choice, wrong choice, it doesn’t matter.

So, why should you vote pro-choice? (click the links to read more)

• Because you might need an abortion one day, and even if you think you’d never have an abortion yourself,  you’d want the option there for your sister, girlfriend, daughter, or best friend if they ever needed one.
• In the years just before abortion became legal in 1973, hospital wards were filled with women seeking abortions–who either had been injured or become sick obtaining an illegal abortion under dangerous conditions, or who had tried to induce the abortion themselves.
• women have a fundamental constitutional right to control their reproductive lives, not to let their reproductive lives control them
• The law is only the foundation for our rights. Real live access — to abortion, to education, to opportunity or to anything else — depends on much more than the law. We all need to walk the walk so that it is safe for people to provide the services that the law says we have a right to use.
• Do we really want to become the next Nicaragua, which outlawed all abortions in 2006?
• It is time to remember the women who died because they had no choice, because a piece of flesh within her was considered more important than her life. A time when constant pregnancy made women weak and many succumbed to death from hemorrhage.
• I trust women to make the decision about what’s best for them and their families.

These are jsut a few of the many, many reasons. Each quote above is a link to the full post, please read on and see what makes this so important. You can find a full list of participants here. You can also get the botton to join in on your own blog there.

Tags: pro-choice, choice, blog for choice day, Roe v. Wade, abortion

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Published by: Summer on January 22nd, 2008 | Filed under life, women

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