How Choice has harmed Women!

[dhhaj]

I constantly hear the rhetoric about abortion. It's her choice, it's her right, women should be allowed to decide what to do with their bodies.  Well ladies the rhetoric is fleeting when you are the one who bought in and made the choice.

Soon after making my choice I realized something, what the Choice is? See no one wants to say "Choice to do What?"  Instead we just say "Choice for abortion" but we don't even want to define that word correctly so we redefine what life is.  It makes society feel better. 

I'm so saddened and angry that women have not only bought into the Bologna but are the mains ones peddling it.  Society tells us "Your Body, Your Choice".  But at the same time if you exceed the quota of two children per household your sanity is questioned?  If you decide to have children and you don't make a lot of money, your abilities to parent are questioned?  IF you decide that you'll keep that baby and take on the role of a teen mom, your choice is discouraged? 

Why if this is my body my choice is the only valid choice, doing what society deems a good idea?

  Society is like a vacuum sucking us in. Telling woman we have choices.  

 Really?  Or  are we just being conditioned to accept and make the "choice" society deems "the best option".   After all we all know if that poor black lady has that baby she will just be another mouth to feed on welfare, and another abusive parent because after all she didn't want that child in the first place!  Aborting it now saves us all a lot of money and inconvience!  Don't act like you've never heard anything likethat before! Maybe you just need to omit black and add young, or some other race in its place for it to ring a bell or to sadly admit you've said something like that!

Yeah, abortion is a choice in the land of free but only for those who dared to make it into society kicking and screaming for thier dear life! 

[dhhaj]

Jan. 12, 2009 at 3:57 PM

Bad day? I'm still pro-choice.

[jsbenkert]

Jan. 12, 2009 at 4:04 PM

I don't quite get your reasoning here.  It is a choice.  No one is forced into having an abortion, and no one should be forced into continuing with an unwanted pregnancy.  Perhaps rather than ranting against an option, that in my opinion and the opinion of many others needs to be kept safe and legal, time and energies would be better spent on finding ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies from ocurring in the first place.

This topic always brings many heated arguments from both extremes of the issue, but rather than spouting off insults and angry remarks, why can't we discuss other options that women have available.  Why can't we look for solutions that help women, rather than passing judgement on them for either choosing to continue with a pregnancy when others think she shouldn't or condemning her for choosing to have an abortion because she feels that it is the best option for her in her situation. 

If we work together to find ways to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and to help out the mothers who choose to continue with their pregnancies, don't you think we would do more good than by cursing and shouting at each other, endlessly arguing why we think one side is right and the other is wrong?

 

[ISAIAHMOM632007]

Jan. 13, 2009 at 12:39 AM

Poster, you will never get pro choicers to admit that abortion kills, rips apart and dismemebers human innocent beings. They hid behind choice and that is where they are safe and that is where they will stay until God touches there hearts.  I hope you find peace and you know contuine to speak out God Bless