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

[catdraco.livejournal.com]

I understood mifepristone (RU-486) was already available in the US for terminations up to 49 days.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

I tend to call the people you refer to as "pro-fetus."

[shadowcell.livejournal.com]

I still think this whole "pro-life" position is a construct of the evangelicals, rather than a genuine argument. I fail to see how a microscopic blob of cells in a petri dish is as much a human being as you and me, and how killing it is as much of a sin as killing a grown person. It's illogical, and while your rank-and-file fundamentalist will believe it, surely the James Dobsons of the world can't be so stupid as to believe it themselves. They have to sell this message to people. There has to be enough of a level of detachment in them to realize that they have to spin this so that it looks like a legitimate argument and not the bullshit it really is.

[azelmaroark.livejournal.com]

You're awesome. Can I link to this?

[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.