choice

in all the debate about abortion, what with the supreme court appointment looming, i feel that some important points are being willfully obscured by the rightwing. for one thing, choice means CHOICE. i fully support a woman's right to choose to abort or NOT to abort for whatever reasons she has. the rightwing spin on the subject is that pro-choice=pro-abortion, but that is not the case at all. i believe that women have the mental, moral, and emotional ability to choose the option that is right for them. i even believe that a woman who believes for religious reasons that she should have as many children is possible should have the right to do just that.

the "pro-life" position (or, as katha pollitt put it, the fetalist position) is one that says, "women can not be trusted with their own bodies, and so we must choose for them."

and lastly, feminsts for life are neither.