Blog for Choice Day!

[lady_kishiria]

I didn't know there was such a thing, but there is, so I'll get this done before midnight.

You often hear women say, "Well, I'd never have an abortion, but I support the right of any other woman to do it." That's not me. I can think of any number of reasons why I might have an abortion, and so I am pro-choice.

I want to see RU-486 brought into this country. It seems to me that pro-liars don't want it because they won't be able to wave their bloody fetus photos around since it induces abortions at a stage where the embryo is microscopic. You have to realize, I support legal abortion even MORE than I support it because I can't stand the pro-life crowd.

I've said that I do yearn for a day when abortion is no more. Seriously, I do. That would mean all contraception worked, that there was no rape and that all women were prosperous enough so that an unplanned pregnancy wouldn't be a big deal. That sounds good, doesn't it? When I pray for an end to abortion, that's what I mean. I don't think pro-liars mean the same thing.

Comments

[helenkacan.livejournal.com]

I'm not really back on LJ but couldn't resist leaving a comment. Or two.

First of all, there are those (and I love the new pronounciation, pro-liars) who consider contraception to be EXACTLY the same as abortion. Gee, thanks a lot. So, if you're having sex with a man, you get to worry. Count. Take your temperature. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

And, then, what really gets me boiling. So, the abstinence campaign fails, the girl gets pregnant - and what is the advice? Well, the most noble sacrifice: carry the fetus to term, so you can provide a baby for an intertile couple. Yup, baby-breeding promoted. Ugh.

Anyway, just my three cents' worth.
H.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Cooperative Family Planning, (aka NFP) actually does work. "Our Bodies, Ourselves", hardly a right-wing Christian organization, give it high marks. I know feminists who like to use it because it involves knowledge of how a woman's body works and not putting *things* in their bodies.

I celebrate that, and say it should not be mandatory.

Women are ALWAYS told to sacrifice. Fuck that, let someone else give something up!