Blog for Choice Day
Jan. 22nd, 2007 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmagrant01As seen on my flist:
People sometimes ask me why someone like me is pro-choice -- and by someone like me, they mean someone who has been struggling with infertility for the last five years. Why, they wonder, would someone who has struggled so long (and so unsuccessfully) to get pregnant want to support abortion rights? Don't I understand, more than most, what an amazing and precious miracle conception is?
Oh, right -- the fact that I'm incapable of getting pregnant somehow means I'm supposed to think other women should be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term? Is that supposed to make me feel better or something?? That makes no sense to me, yet people seem surprised when I say hell, no! If I ever do get pregnant, conception will happen in a petri dish, and it'll cost me 12 grand. So yeah, that will be quite precious to me, and I'm thankful that science is advanced enough that I have that option. But that doesn't mean I begrudge anyone else for rejecting something I can't have. It's not my place to make that choice for them.
That's why it's called pro-choice. You get to choose, because only you know what's best for your life and your family and your health. No one else chooses for you.
People sometimes ask me why someone like me is pro-choice -- and by someone like me, they mean someone who has been struggling with infertility for the last five years. Why, they wonder, would someone who has struggled so long (and so unsuccessfully) to get pregnant want to support abortion rights? Don't I understand, more than most, what an amazing and precious miracle conception is?
Oh, right -- the fact that I'm incapable of getting pregnant somehow means I'm supposed to think other women should be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term? Is that supposed to make me feel better or something?? That makes no sense to me, yet people seem surprised when I say hell, no! If I ever do get pregnant, conception will happen in a petri dish, and it'll cost me 12 grand. So yeah, that will be quite precious to me, and I'm thankful that science is advanced enough that I have that option. But that doesn't mean I begrudge anyone else for rejecting something I can't have. It's not my place to make that choice for them.
That's why it's called pro-choice. You get to choose, because only you know what's best for your life and your family and your health. No one else chooses for you.
