Blog for Choice 2008

January 22, 2008 by Holly in random acts of activism, reproductive rights  

Blog for Choice Day Today is the 35th anniversary of Roe v Wade. 35 years ago abortion was made legal for all women and now, 35 years later, it is important to celebrate this day in history as well as continue to educate ourselves and each other about safe sex and contraception and the right to safe and legal health care.

Celebrating Roe this year is extremely important, especially since 2007 initiated quite a few new abortion bans and even more that are on their way to passing. These points have marked the undeniable war that politicians, anti-abortion and religious organizations, and extremists have declared on women’s rights.

With the elections coming up and the possible overturn of Roe v Wade due to the Republican side of the presidential candidates, all of whom who vote to overturn legislature that gives women the right and control over their own bodies, it is very important to take a closer look at these candidates and choose to vote pro-choice.

I vote pro-choice because I believe in women and I believe that women are capable of making their own informed decisions about what they can and cannot do to their own bodies. I vote pro-choice because women are smart and educated and they deserve to choose for themselves whether or not to go through a pregnancy. I vote pro-choice because no other person–women, and definitely not men, have the right to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body. I vote pro-choice because I believe that every child should be wanted.

It is important to vote for the candidate who will protect the rights of women because no matter what the laws say, women will continue to have abortions. Before Roe v Wade was passed women had abortions and women died in tremendous and tragic numbers. It is important to realize that abortions will always occur and it is imperative to protect the lives of the people of this country. It is imperative to ensure that all women will have access to safe health care and not doing so is simply turning your back on the people who live in this country and saying that you do not care and that your religious views mean more than their lives.

Roe v Wade It is ridiculous to assume that because of your personal morals, that you and your opinions hold more weight than 35 years of helping women live the lives that they want for themselves. That your opinions mean more than the rape and incest survivors who sought abortions and not being able to receive that health care would in turn jeopardize their lives and overall wellbeing. The outright arrogance that goes on in this country and in the minds of extremists who are willing to jeopardize the lives of so many women to “save” an unborn fetus is absolutely disgusting. By voting for a candidate who will do what it takes to save Roe v Wade and save the lives of so many women, you will be saying that no, women will not go back 35 years in time and that no, women do not deserve to die in the streets after receiving a botched abortion because they were that desperate not to go through 9 months of pregnancy and birth a child that is not wanted. Each and every single child should be a wanted child and by voting for a candidate who supports that, that is exactly how it will continue to be in America.

So on this 35th anniversary of Roe v Wade, we must ask ourselves, how important are the lives of women? What will we do to ensure that women will not have to resort back to back-alley abortion days?

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  • Happy 35th year of freedom everyone! :)
  • abortion is still a very contentious issue. there r benefits as well as risks. abortion certainly is bad for the bodies of women and in the long run might reduce their fertility. but on the other side, there's a matter of population control and the risk of botched delivery. was a nice post.
  • I have to agree, views in abortion are mixed. Personally, I think abortion should be outlawed, but thats only an opinion. One the other hand you have like Daniel says, there is population control. Well written article by the way :)
  • Although I am a democrat supporting many liberal causes, I don't agree with abortion. My mother and father never married. I would not be alive today had my mother had an abortion.
  • Very good post, I am impressed! Abortion has become one of the necessities nowadays for most of the families. I am completely at your side.
  • ProdigalKnot
    You said,
    "It is important to realize that abortions will always occur and it is imperative to protect the lives of the people of this country."

    So, by the same logic, we know that people will always be murdered, so let's make sure that people are allowed to arm themselves and kill anyone who tries to gets in the way of them living their lives, their way. Your logic and this statement are completely non-sensical.

    Save lives by making sure that other lives are squashed? Pathetic! "but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury." (Romans 2:8 ESV)

    Every aborted unborn child is a life denied by selfish and un-Godly people who will answer for their murders. May the true God, who died ON PURPOSE for you (the epitome of UN-selfishness), rescue you from the god that has blinded you!
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