Blog for Choice
I'm pro-choice. Not because I think people should run out and get abortions. Honestly, I think people should be intelligent enough to prevent most needs for abortions. There’s birth control and all those other “choices” that can be made instead.
The reason I am pro-choice is because America, like many cultures, tends to be an all or nothing society. If abortions were made illegal there would be cases where women could and probably would lose their lives. This didn’t become so clear to me until I was in art school. I had a friend who wanted a baby, desperately wanted a child and did eventually get pregnant. Midway through her pregnancy they discovered her baby’s organs were not developing properly. It was putting extra strain on her system due to the added issues of dealing with substances a healthy baby could process itself. The baby, a little girl, would have never survived outside the womb and chances were that my friend might die or have serious organ damage herself if she continued to carry the baby.
It was a tough decision for her to end that life she wanted to create. Every time I see people preaching pro-life I always wonder what they would say to a situation like this. Would they understand, would they say too bad, maybe even that God deemed it was her time to die? I wonder at times how many women face hard decisions like this and what they would do if the option wasn’t open to them.
What it comes down to is there is a difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion. They are two different things though often they are painted as one in the same. I do believe women have the right but at the same time I would like to think a woman would educate herself on the options before she found herself in a situation where an abortion was needed. No matter what, in the end all that matters is a woman’s ability to get educated and have options open.