Blog For Choice 2009, Part II

[desertvixen]

 So, now that I've done the topic essay, I'd like to share from some of the previous Blog For Choice efforts:

 Blog For Choice 2008 : http://desert-vixen.livejournal.com/2008/01/22/

It is because I firmly believe that if women do not have the right to control what happens in our own bodies, then none of the other rights we have really matter.

Women deserve to not have our medical issues – medical issues that do not physically affect men – made into political footballs.

My daughter, likewise, has strengthened my commitment to choice. I want her to have the same choices, the same options, that I was able to have, and I will not allow those who would dismantle a woman’s right to abortion if needed, would dismantle a woman’s right to birth control, would dismantle a woman’s right to make choices that have immense effects on her life.

For me, being pro-choice encompasses both sides of choice – the choice to have children, as well as the choice not to. The choice to space one’s children, or to delay children until one is established in life, or to never have children, for whatever reason she decides.

We need to trust women to make the choices that are right for them.

 Blog for Choice 2007: http://desert-vixen.livejournal.com/291547.html#cutid1

Bottom Line:

1. Abortion needs to remain legal.
2. Contraception and sex education need to be much more widespread.
3. Choice encompasses both the choice to not have a child and the choice to have a child.

DV