skywritingg:

Abortion makes me very uncomfortable. Seeing my little sister at 6 weeks as just a little pulsing blob was a strong experience for me. I believe in that little life in a mother’s womb. Even in a case of rape, I don’t think I would ever be able to abort a child, as much as pregnancy and child birth  scare me, I just don’t think I could do it. I won’t lie, I might secretly hope for a miscarriage, but I wouldn’t be able to actually terminate the pregnancy, I’d just be stuck forever thinking I had killed my child. I care very much about life, and I do, personally, equate that fetus with life.

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I’d like to point out the first part of my last sentence. I care about life. That includes every scared teenage girl who can sigh with relief as she leaves the clinic. I care about that girl who doesn’t have to be afraid of carrying a fetus to term and then going through the extremely taxing and dangerous ordeal of birth. I care about the girl whose body can’t carry a baby or needs medication that would endanger a baby. I care about the girl whose parents would make her life hell if they found out. I care about the girl who just isn’t ready and doesn’t want to subject a child to the flawed adoption system. I care about women who would otherwise have to go to some guy’s apartment and risk infertility, infection, and death, because (for what ever reason, they don’t have shit to prove to me, thank you) they just can’t have a child. I care about women who should never have to frantically throw themselves down stairs, I care about keeping wire hangers in the closet where they belong. Let me say this again: I care about life. Human beings. I care about those who have already been born as much as I care about the unborn. My personal feelings about my own uterus and what I would choose to do with it, should a fertilized egg happen to implant in my uterine lining, has absolutely nothing to do with what other women should do.

Pro-choice is not pro-abortion. Pro-choice is often far more pro-life than “pro-life” is. I can’t say I’ve ever met anyone who thinks abortion is just fantastic or the new perfect birth control, that’s not how it goes. If you really want a lower abortion rate, put your time and effort into education and health care (you know, programs like Planned Parenthood). No one has any right to tell a woman what to do with her body or anything that’s growing inside of it. No one has any right to put women in danger for a group of cells, especially a group of cells they will later ignore and expect to fend for itself.

Women are human beings, not walking uteruses anyone can control.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.  Thank you.