nicely done, that was very well stated imho. it is such a controversial issue here and for so very many people it is completely black or white.
i too am pro-choice, have been since high school at the very least. i remember participating in an after school program that looked at current issues. it could have been a wonderful, insightful sort of thing but it was rather unfortunately run by a woman who believed that hers was the only opinion that counted. how that leads to open discussion i'll never know.
anyway, the point of that was that we had a day where we discussed abortion and i ended up getting into it with her a bit about my beliefs and such. at the time, i felt very strongly that abortion should be legal for any woman who had suffered rape/abuse and that everyone should get a "get out of jail free" card. she told me that i could only have it one way, that i supported it or not and that there were no gray areas. it pissed me off but had the side effect of making me pay more attention to what was going on in the world around me.
i've grown since then, learned more, thought more and realize that i'm prochoice all the way. and that's what it's all about, giving a woman the right to choose a course of action for something very personal to her. i've sat in a waiting room, waiting to see if i was pregnant or not, mind whirring with possibilities, will i won't i will he stay should he go could i do it, do i want to do it etc. i can't imagine not even being given a choice. it's so frustrating to watch everything sliding backwards...
that was terribly long, probably rather pointless and possible unintelligible. sorry. and i'm in a situation where i'm as far away from christianity as you can be before you hit athiesm so it's undoubtably different for you, all things considered. i apparently just wanted to share (as i so often do :P) but i agree, pro-choice vs pro-life are just not things you talk about at dinner with strangers.
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Date: 2007-01-22 11:42 pm (UTC)nicely done, that was very well stated imho. it is such a controversial issue here and for so very many people it is completely black or white.
i too am pro-choice, have been since high school at the very least. i remember participating in an after school program that looked at current issues. it could have been a wonderful, insightful sort of thing but it was rather unfortunately run by a woman who believed that hers was the only opinion that counted. how that leads to open discussion i'll never know.
anyway, the point of that was that we had a day where we discussed abortion and i ended up getting into it with her a bit about my beliefs and such. at the time, i felt very strongly that abortion should be legal for any woman who had suffered rape/abuse and that everyone should get a "get out of jail free" card. she told me that i could only have it one way, that i supported it or not and that there were no gray areas. it pissed me off but had the side effect of making me pay more attention to what was going on in the world around me.
i've grown since then, learned more, thought more and realize that i'm prochoice all the way. and that's what it's all about, giving a woman the right to choose a course of action for something very personal to her. i've sat in a waiting room, waiting to see if i was pregnant or not, mind whirring with possibilities, will i won't i will he stay should he go could i do it, do i want to do it etc. i can't imagine not even being given a choice. it's so frustrating to watch everything sliding backwards...
that was terribly long, probably rather pointless and possible unintelligible. sorry. and i'm in a situation where i'm as far away from christianity as you can be before you hit athiesm so it's undoubtably different for you, all things considered. i apparently just wanted to share (as i so often do :P) but i agree, pro-choice vs pro-life are just not things you talk about at dinner with strangers.