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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Blog for Choice

As a participant in the Blog for Choice Day, I'm telling my readers why I'm pro-choice. Ultimately, I am pro-choice because I do not believe the government has the right to tell women (or men) what to do with their bodies. Our country is founded on the ideology that there is separation between church and state. As such I do not feel that someone's personal religious beliefs should dictate what another person does. In fact, it outrages me that I even need to defend this point of view, because it really should be no one else's business.

On a more personal note, I have never had an abortion. However, I have been pregnant twice. Both times were planned pregnancies, and I was estatic to be pregnant. Despite the fact that I wanted to be pregnant, it really took a toll on my body. And I didn't have that difficult a pregnancy! As hard as it was on me, I know women who've had worse pregnancies, where they've had to be on bed rest for months. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be forced to go through this. I also cannot imagine what it would be like if I were having a baby that I did not want for whatever reason.

Yes, someone can choose to give the baby up for adoption (after undergoing the physical challenges of pregnancy). How likely is that though for a married woman who finds out that there's something wrong with the baby that she's carrying? I hear a lot of pregnant women saying that no matter what the different pregnancy tests show, they would never have an abortion. I have a lot of respect for that viewpoint, but I often wonder about the many pregnant women who I don't hear saying that. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be in that situation, to be told that there was a serious problem with a wanted pregnancy. I can only imagine what pain those parents must be in. I do know one thing: they do not need me to judge them.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: "People may need to defend their rights, but they do not need to justify the exercise of those rights."

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 11:26 PM   2 comments
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  • At 1/22/2007 1:38 AM, Anonymous Suzanne said…

    Nicely said!

     

  • At 1/22/2007 11:39 AM, Blogger super des said…

    Yes, very nicely said.

    I've never understood how women can go through a full term pregnancy, with or without complications, and then commit infanticide. This is going to sound totally callous, but at least abortion spares them the pain of pregnancy (even though abortion can also be an ordeal).

     
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