When I as in High School, I had a friend who got pregnant. At the time, the options and ramifications of this type of situation had not fully crossed my mind. In the back of my mind, I knew I would be incapable of giving a baby up for adoption and that an abortion was an option.
My friend chose to have an abortion and asked me to help her. It seemed like no big deal and the wisest course of action. I took her to the clinic for the procedure.
I was forced to confront the reality of what was being done as I sat in the waiting room. I imagined myself in her shoes. I graphically imagined that procedure being done to me. I made a choice that day. I could not live with myself if I had an abortion. My new reality was that if I got pregnant, I would become a mother.
Despite this strong and emotional shift in my personal feelings on the matter, I did not feel any differently about my friend's choice. It was her body, her choice and she would have to live with it. Many people consider abortion murder. I do not see it as black and white but will not head down that rabbit hole of why here. Let's just say, it is my body (my uterus) and my choice. No matter what choice I make, it will affect the rest of MY life and I will have to live with the consequences.
So, why do so many people think they have a right to decide what happens with my uterus? Why do they think they know better than I do what decision to make? Are they more intelligent, more ethical, more experienced, or do they just speak directly to "God"? Probably not. Yet they somehow think they have the right to make my most personal and emotional choices for me and every other woman.
Further, why are politicians choosing now to push this agenda? Sen. Richard Blumenthal states, "As families across Connecticut struggle to find work and make ends meet, it is both disappointing and alarming to see some lawmakers returning to the culture wars of the past and trying to restrict access to health care for women across this country."
"This misguided effort to defund the trusted health care providers on whom women rely would leave millions without access to basic preventive health care, including cancer screenings, breast exams, and family planning."
Really? With everything going on and our country experiencing very tough times, this is when you decide to propose this type of self-serving, gender-biased, unconstitutional legislation?
Get out of my uterus and pull your heads out of your colons!!!
SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: GOP Dials Back the Clock on Progress for Women: http://huffingtonpost.com/sen-richard-blumenthal/gop-dials-back-the-clock-_b_818826.html
To see what other bills (besides H.R.217) are being sponsored, go to:
http://www.opencongress.org/
Here is the page for two of the sponsors of the bill referenced above:
http://www.opencongress.org/people/bills/400380_Christopher_Smith
http://www.opencongress.org/people/show/400315_Mike_Pence
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I always want to ask politicians and anti-abortion activists if they are going to help raise the children they don't want other women to abort - provide them a home, pay for food, healthcare, clothing, save for college, etc. Have they ever thought that maybe the woman is unfit and her keeping that baby would be the worst thing in the world anyone could do to another human being?
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