“These same people who tell us we must defend the lives of the unborn–they are the same people who seem not so interested in defending anyone but themselves after the accident of birth is complete! These same people who profess their love of the unborn’s soul–they don’t care to make much of a contribution to the poor, they don’t care to offer much assistance to the unwanted or the oppressed! How do they justify such a concern for the fetus and such a lack of concern for unwanted and abused children? They condemn others for the accident of conception; they condemn the poor–as if the poor can help being poor. One way the poor could help themselves would be to be in control of the size of their families. I thought that freedom of choice was obviously democratic–was obviously American!”~John Irving, from “The Cider House Rules”

During the past decade, anti-abortion rights groups have expanded their agenda to oppose contraception programs and women’s health services. In just the first half of 2011, 162 new laws were enacted which restrict women’s reproductive health care — the majority of which were attacks on preventive health care services and providers. While the media pays close attention to these issues as they are debated in Congress or in the state legislatures, little attention is paid to the important role city governments can and do play in this political struggle.

What I don’t understand about the pro-life idiots is that if they can’t trust me to make a choice why the hell would they trust me with a child? If you feel you need to regulate reproduction then masturbation needs to be out-lawed, so does birth control such as the pill and condoms. You can’t tell someone, “You live in a free country, HOWEVER, I am going to tell you what you can and cannot do to your own body.

You can’t say, “You live in a free country BUT…” Because THEN IT”S NOT A FREE COUNTRY. You are either free or you are not. If you want a LARGE Government that dictates morals of the majority then you are not living in a free society. You might as well be living in Saddom’s Iraq.

Yes I am in the minority. I am a woman and I’m a Pro-Choice independent atheist. I believe abortions should be legal up until fetus viability. If the fetus cannot live and breathe on it’s own it is merely a parasite incubating inside the woman’s body and it us up to her whether or not she would like to sustain said parasite. I know it sounds cold and uncaring, however, when you take your dog or cat in to be fixed and find out that it was already pregnant you don’t stop the spay or neuter. You have no qualms about it even though the Bible said you cannot ‘fix’ any animal and it is a sin against god. Yet these animals won’t go to heaven either.

If you don’t believe in abortions: Don’t have one. If you don’t believe in abortion you have every right to do so but do not take away the rights to my own medical care. You think of a fetus as a baby, I do not. If I want it gone that is MY choice and not yours. We have HIPPA for a reason. Our medical records are private because they are OURS not yours. My body my business my right. However, once that fetus can survive outside the womb all bets are off unless my life is at stake.

People place black and white in this issue when it’s anything but black and white, why? Simply put, you cannot restrict another human beings choices pertaining to medical treatments they want or need. Otherwise you do not live in a free democratic nation. We have already let the corporations take over politics, do you really want to go against the founding fathers and let the church and other religious bigots take over as well?