I hear the term bandied about all the time. Pro-choice. It speaks of empowerment. It speaks of a woman's rights.
But at what point is our country no longer a 'pro-choice' country, and merely a 'pro-abortion' country?
To me, that fine line is crossed when we refuse to stand up for the rights of women to define what their pregnancy is. Choice. I made my choice, and even at the tender age of a month inutero, my 'fetus' was a life to me. My rights should protect that choice as strongly as they protect a woman's right to decide that it's a cluster of cells to be discarded. But our country doesn't do that. We still refuse to define a woman's chosen pregnancy as life, because doing so 'might' give the fetus rights. We refuse to grant women who keep their babies the rights they deserve, to choose, because it's feared it might be misinterpreted as the rights of the fetus, and endanger the right to abort. We are not a pro-choice country when we take this stance. We need to be defending all choices.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2007/12/17/4728409-sun.html
But at what point is our country no longer a 'pro-choice' country, and merely a 'pro-abortion' country?
To me, that fine line is crossed when we refuse to stand up for the rights of women to define what their pregnancy is. Choice. I made my choice, and even at the tender age of a month inutero, my 'fetus' was a life to me. My rights should protect that choice as strongly as they protect a woman's right to decide that it's a cluster of cells to be discarded. But our country doesn't do that. We still refuse to define a woman's chosen pregnancy as life, because doing so 'might' give the fetus rights. We refuse to grant women who keep their babies the rights they deserve, to choose, because it's feared it might be misinterpreted as the rights of the fetus, and endanger the right to abort. We are not a pro-choice country when we take this stance. We need to be defending all choices.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2007/12/17/4728409-sun.html
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