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

[zare-k.livejournal.com]

Some in the anti-choice camp are now taking the position that abortion should be banned because it is profoundly harmful to women-- specifically, because it causes deep, lasting psychological trauma. Trouble is, scientific studies on the topic don't support that conclusion at all.

See this Sunday's NY Times magazine for a profile on one of these activists. It's pretty interesting.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

As opposed to the potential harm caused by having to carry a pregnancy you didn't want to term and then having to either go through the adoption process or raise the child.

Right.

I call BS on this one.

DV

[shadowcell.livejournal.com]

Plus there's the immeasurable trauma the child will go through, being forced into the world in the care of a parent who didn't want them. Nobody has yet tried to justify to me that it's worth saving fetuses from being aborted, only to bring those children into a world where they are not loved.