Why Are You Pro-Choice?

Tomorrow marks the 34th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision in Roe v. Wade. Hundreds of voices from across the blogosphere are joining together to the mark the day by telling you, gentle readers, why they are pro-choice. And I'll be joining them.

In the meantime, tell me why you are.

Comments

[eli]

it is your uterus. your decision.

[Taylor Marsh]

It is my God given life and I am free.

[B.D.]

The choice has always been available. The question is do we want women who make a particular choice to put themselves in harm's way with misinformation, unsanitary conditions, malpractioners and worse which can lead to terrible physical and emotional consequences including the possibility of death? I say no. Let women choose and let them be safe and cared for in whatever choices they make.

[paul]

As a non-uterus-bearing person, I don't think I have any standing here: I'm not going to tell someone whose life is completely linked to that decision how they should make it. I believe I have to defer to them and support that decision, no matter what. Anyone who claims otherwise isn't worth talking to.

[Hawise]

I am pro-choice because life itself is full of choices. I will not deny to another what I would desire for myself. As long as something is safe, relevant and optional, I will recognize its merits and support its right to exist, regardless of whether or not I will ever require it.

[Michael Hussey]

The Terri Schiavo fiasco showed how conservative intrude on personal medical decision. Ditto the South Dakota bill. People run when they see wingnuts like Randall Terry.

[Xanthippas]

Because whatever personal reservations I may have about abortion, it still comes down to a woman having the power and the right to choose what to do with her own body. There IS a right to privacy, and it does encompass abortion, and enough of this canard about how Roe v. Wade is a "messy" or "flawed" decision. That sort of nonsense, along with the attacks on all fronts by the anti-abortionists, is why women who have the right to choose may not have the ability to choose. That is a fight we cannot afford to lose.

[eRobin]

There's also the fact that once you lose the right to chose to end a pregnancy, you lose the right to continue one. Anti-choicers forget that choice isn't only about abortion.

[Linkmeister]

It's pretty simple to me: I get to choose how I live my life; shouldn't everybody?

[dancinfool]

The same reason I'm a liberal:

Empathy.

[Chris Clarke]

I wrote my reason here.

[Paddy Mac]

The Fourth Amendment has a right to privacy. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits slavery. Human reproductive biology shows that half (or more) of all conceptions do not implant in the uterus. (So much for life beginning at conception.) Mom chose to have me, just as her mom chose to have her. Any of us guys who believe that abortion equals murder must, at all times, absolutely refrain from any activity which could lead to one. (And the Catholic priest / Mark Foley end-around doesn't count, obviously.) Any other questions?

[Common Sense]

If men sans uterus cannot comment on abortion (which does in fact kill our sisters, daughters, sons, brothers, etc) then women without a penis have no right to comment, vote, or even open their mouths about war, iraq or any military policies. They don't fight, they don't talk about it then. Is that it?

In fact we do not have choices over our bodies. The FDA tells you what you can/can't put in your body. If our country is attacked or under an emergency threat all males under 35 and over 18 are given green fatigues and a gun and told to fight in a war they didn't start. It is a fallacy to believe in any country that you have 100% choice over your bodies or privacy.

You are making major leaps through logical hoops to think conception does not make a life. Conceptions not implanting does not make it less a life, even if true.

Amazing we complain about professional soldiers dying in Iraq and do not bemoan the millions of helpless victims.

Think it through----women are victimizing themselves and their own sex with abortion. Women killing women in the name of....convenience. Its not for medical reasons. It is for convenience.

Check the fact. And men who say they have no choice are idiots---we are humans and called to protect all human life, not just the ones we want. Grow some balls.