Abortion

[omimouse]

Abortion should be safe and legal. Comprehensive sex ed should be a mandatory part of public school.

I have been afraid that I was pregnant before. I wasn't using anything at the time, because I only had one partner at that point, and Warin was snipped. Turns out I was a month late because of the amount of stress my body was under.

I have been certain that I was pregnant once. Louis and I were using condoms, because I wasn't sure if we could afford birth control pills for me. The condom didn't break; it unrolled and plastered itself against my cervix, inside out. Happened on Monday; I was on birth control by Sunday, waiting for my period be damned. You're not supposed to be able to tell after only a week. I was pregnant, and I know it; I felt it. Ludicrous fertility runs in my family. I choose to go on the pill, so that I (hopefully) wouldn't have to make a more painful choice a month or so later, and so that I wouldn't have to go through that again.

Because the part that hurt so much both times was the fact that I want a child. I want one very badly. Both times, we simply did not have the resources for another child, and I knew that. It would have been irresponsible in the extreme to have kept a pregnancy, hence the reason I was doing my best to avoid it both times.

I still don't know what my choice would have been, not really. The point is, it would have been my choice. Mine, and my husbands', since they would have been involved with the consequences of that choice. Our choice. No one else's.

No one else has the right to make that choice for us. No one. If you do not agree; if you think abortion should not be legal, then there is the door.

And then she heads for the clinic and/She gets some static walking through the door/They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner/And they call her a whore/God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes/'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose

Comments

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Love you, dear.

For the most part...

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

For the most part, I agree with you. My only thing is that I firmly disagree with using abortion as the sole method of birth control. Imho, there are much better and safer methods availabe in the United States.

Personally, I wouldn't have an abortion. But that's cause I believe that an infant's life begins at conception (unique DNA and DNA is what determines life). I don't scorn people who have abortions and I won't tell them what to do. Its their, and their partner's choice. And we're wrong as a society to make that choice for them. Just as we're wrong to decide that we won't teach our children about sex, safer sex, and all that.

Anyway, minor rant on my part. Just letting you know that I agree with you.

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

Honey, I also agree safe abortions should be legal, and that sex education should be mandatory. I made my decisions on abortions when I watched helplessly while a 16 year old child bled to death because of a botched aborttion, and there was nothing we could do to stop the bleeding. Yes, this is a real hot button for me.

Do I approve of abortion? No. Would I have had one? No. I also have not recieved the memo from God that He has gone fishing and I am in charge. It should be bewtween a woman, her doctor, and her God.

[fluffworld.livejournal.com]

First off, I agree totally, and wish I could muster up your elegance when argueing as opposed to roaring "What the hell do you think you know about it, you smug bigoted little GIT!" and turning into the Hulk.

Second off, hallo, and how did you end up on my friends list?

[raim.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with the post (though I agree with you), but - you friended me? Hi. *waves* May I ask why? And you have roots in the Netherlands, don't you? Interesting :]

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

I could not agree more. Well said, hon.

Gessi