Blog For Choice 2011
Jan. 21st, 2011 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixenToday – the Friday before the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade – we invite pro-choice bloggers and activists to join us for the sixth annual Blog for Choice Day!
Blog for Choice Day gets more people reading and talking about reproductive rights online on one of the most important days surrounding a woman’s right to choose: the Roe anniversary. Plus, it lets your readers and the mainstream media know that a woman's right to choose is a core progressive value that must be protected.
This year, we want your thoughts on this topic: Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011?
This is my fourth year participating in Blog For Choice, and those of you who know me know that women's right to choose is a topic I'm very passionate about.
Women's right to choose must be protected. Being pro-choice means exactly that - supporting women's right to make their own choices about their own reproductive lives. Not just the basic question - do they want children? - but the multitude of questions that go along with it. If they want children, how many? How close together? What sort of birth control do they want to use? The list could go on forever.
Yet there are those in our country who would deny women this most basic right - the right for a woman to control her own body. That choice, that right affects her whole life. Not only do anti-choice forces want to make it even more difficult to access contraceptive and abortion services, keep the military medicine system from providing abortions, and cut down on women's access to reproductive health services (an issue that becomes a political football for women, but not for men), many anti-choice politicians don't support funding for services that would benefit women and children. Many of them aren't "pro-life" but rather "pro-forced-birth" and "pro-fetus". They want to leave women with only one choice, regardless of the consequences for individual women.
I am concerned for choice. I'm concerned for my choice, for my daughter's choice. Especially after having experienced pregnancy, childbirth, and the ongoing experience of (now-single) motherhood - it has to be a CHOICE. Every child should be wanted. Nothing less is fair to women or children.
Support women's choice - even if that choice isn't the one you would make for yourself. Tell the people we voted into office that women's reproductive rights are a priority, that they aren't a political football, that they are important.
Or tell them to pack their bags and go home.
Blog for Choice Day gets more people reading and talking about reproductive rights online on one of the most important days surrounding a woman’s right to choose: the Roe anniversary. Plus, it lets your readers and the mainstream media know that a woman's right to choose is a core progressive value that must be protected.
This year, we want your thoughts on this topic: Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011?
This is my fourth year participating in Blog For Choice, and those of you who know me know that women's right to choose is a topic I'm very passionate about.
Women's right to choose must be protected. Being pro-choice means exactly that - supporting women's right to make their own choices about their own reproductive lives. Not just the basic question - do they want children? - but the multitude of questions that go along with it. If they want children, how many? How close together? What sort of birth control do they want to use? The list could go on forever.
Yet there are those in our country who would deny women this most basic right - the right for a woman to control her own body. That choice, that right affects her whole life. Not only do anti-choice forces want to make it even more difficult to access contraceptive and abortion services, keep the military medicine system from providing abortions, and cut down on women's access to reproductive health services (an issue that becomes a political football for women, but not for men), many anti-choice politicians don't support funding for services that would benefit women and children. Many of them aren't "pro-life" but rather "pro-forced-birth" and "pro-fetus". They want to leave women with only one choice, regardless of the consequences for individual women.
I am concerned for choice. I'm concerned for my choice, for my daughter's choice. Especially after having experienced pregnancy, childbirth, and the ongoing experience of (now-single) motherhood - it has to be a CHOICE. Every child should be wanted. Nothing less is fair to women or children.
Support women's choice - even if that choice isn't the one you would make for yourself. Tell the people we voted into office that women's reproductive rights are a priority, that they aren't a political football, that they are important.
Or tell them to pack their bags and go home.
