so today was pro-life/pro-choice day today, and I must say, I enjoyed myself immensely. You might have seen me dear reader, with my lovely wwmsd? (what would Margaret Sanger do?) t-shirt running around school today. I was most pleased though, with the amount of boys who saw our shirts and lauded us. It was proof to me that there are intelligent, well-informed males out there. If there is any one thing in the world that I hate it is pro-life boys. I mean, they can't get pregnant! They will never have to make that decision, it isn't their futures and college educations and social alienation at stake! I think that any man who has at least a teaspoon of respect for women should recognize that it is HER decision. It was pointed out to me today that pro-choice does not mean anti-life and I think that that is really important to keep in mind. Even if an individual may disagree with abortion, for religious reasons or otherwise, they HAVE to recognize a woman's right to choose in our democratic secular society. Here are some lovely points from the day:
"keep your rosaries away from my ovaries!" - crude but catchy and too the point
"77% of pro-life leaders are men, 100% will never get pregnant" - very true
"pro-choice does not mean anti-life" - food for pro-lifer thought
The oddest thing was that both my parents are pro-life and I just couldn't bring myself to argue with them. I think that it is more filial piety than fear or wishy-washy feelings on my part. I just hope that one day the idea of pro-choice isn't just some radical thought us crazy kids are bitching about.
-thine in the bonds of womanhood :-)
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whenever i see the coathanger, i become deeply, deeply disturbed. it presents such a graphic mental image...
and i truly TRULY cannot understand how people are still "pro-life." don't they understand that what few valid points they have cannot begin to compete with the importance of what pro-choicers are defending?
A woman having the right to choose should not be a radical thought. It should be a fundamental thought, a thought integrated so smoothly into social consciousness that to challenge it is not considered. A woman’s right to choose is…well, a woman’s right.
An individual who is personally opposed to abortion does not have the right to tell a woman what to do with her body, or how to live her life. And hey, here’s a novel idea, maybe if abstinence-only sex ed wasn’t the only thing being taught in schools, we might have fewer pregnant teens who have to show up alone and terrified at abortion clinics.
Sometimes I think conservatives/extreme Christians are cute, but not when they go and pull something like this…it kind of makes me physically sick, actually. Why wont they listen to reason? It scares me when people wont listen to reason. Fetuses are not babies!
Hmm. I wish I had had time to make a t shirt.
Gaah. I have to go do physics homework
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