So today is the 34th anniversary of Roe v Wade, NARAL asked pro-choice bloggers to blog today about the reasons they are pro-choice. Here goes:
There are so many reasons, I don't even know how to get started. I believe strongly that women have the right to decide when and if to bear children. Pregnancy is not an easy thing to go through, and changes your body permanently, no one should be forced to go through that.
Many of the anti-choice leaders are men, and none of them will ever be pregnant. Why should they get to decide whether or not a woman should go through a pregnancy. Many of these same men also don't believe that rape and incest victims should have access or education about emergency contraception or abortion.
Whether or not abortion is legal and accessible, it would still happen. Many women have and still suffer, have permanent damage, or die painful deaths from abortions not done by professionals when legal abortion is not accessible or legal. To prevent this from happening every woman should have the right to education about and accessibility to a safe, legal, abortion.
I think that there are endless valid reasons why a women would choose to have an abortion, I could start listing them off, but I don't know where to start, or when to end. From the woman who was raped, to the woman who will die if she stays pregnant, or the child victim of rape or incest, or the woman who just cannot afford to have a child, or the college student that wants to finish school, or the woman who is profoundly addicted to drugs, and so many others. All of these women and the women I didn't list should have the right to choose what is best for them and their bodies.
I know there are many more reasons for my being pro-choice, but when you get to the bottom of it all, it's because I believe the choice to go through a pregnancy should be given to all woman.
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