Click List: What Motivates People to Become Pro-Choice Advocates?
It’s the second week of posting here at Feminists For Choice. The timing couldn’t have been more apropos. Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated to the Supreme Cort of the United States. And Dr. George Tiller, a long-time women’s health provider, was brutally assassinated last week while he was attending church. Clearly the pro-choice movement must band together and keep fighting to protect women’s reproductive rights. But what is it that motivates people to become pro-choice advocates? Here are a few stories that try to answer that question.
My Friend George Tiller – Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL, on Salon.com
Patients Remember Dr. Tiller – Jill at Feministe
Why I Will Perform Abortions – Rozalyn Farmer Love in the Washington Post
Remembering Why I’m a Pro-choice Douhla – Miriam from Feministing
What’s your take? Why are you pro-choice?
1Phenicks
wrote on 8 June 2009 at 14:28
I’m pro-choice because morality or immorality is up to the individual person. Abortion should be as legal as adultery, cheating, fornication, stripping, piercings, tattos, cosmetic surgery and all those other things that involves doing something with your body that others may not like. Each perosn has their own reason for doing so; not all abortions are social, not all of them are medical or a matter of life or death, not all of them are about rape and incest victims or about poor women. But they are all about trying to regain control over your body after its done something you didn’t want it to do, get pregnant, house a dying or dead fetus or put you in a position to choose between your life or that of a much wanted baby. Abortion is anything but simple but making it and keeping it legal is the best thing the government can do to help make the situation of needing or even wanting one easier.
2Kate
wrote on 8 June 2009 at 18:19
well put, phenicks. i’m pro-choice because i don’t believe that our lives are lived in black and white, and there is nothing simple about the choice to bring new life into the world
3Erika
wrote on 9 June 2009 at 18:15
i think many people bring the morality issue into reproductive rights so quickly that they are blind to some very serious issues that could arise if abortion was banned in the US. Making it illegal won’t STOP abortion it will simply create a black market for abortion. The rich will just go out of the country and the poor will be in back rooms and basements using clothes hangers. The government has no right to tell me, or any woman, what she can do with her body. On the same note the government is suppose to be an agency that exists for the good of the people and taking away women’s rights to the point that their health could be in jeopordy certainly isn’t for the good of the peopele.