Check out all the blogs for choice!
Blog for Choice day is looking fantastic, and I can't believe all of the support the campaign has gotten--so thanks to all our bloggers for choice!
Just a few posts I'd like to point out that I think are extra bad-ass...
Let’s talk about sex…about black women and our reproductive health. About how choice impacts the treatment of endometriosis, fibroids, breast cancer and other conditions black women are at risk for. Let’s discuss choice as it relates to access to basic healthcare for women…to our ability to choose treatments rather than have them forced on us…to our ability to empower our daughters rather than hand them over to a system that expects them to get pregnant…anticipates them getting an STD…and could give a damn if they die out as a result of inadequate care and government enforced ignorance.Hear me on this, for a bitch is a witness to choice on a different level as it relates to me and mine…to sisters of color…and the poor.
Today is the thirty-fourth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, as well as the second annual Blog For Choice event. This year it was asked "Why are you pro-choice?"At first glance, it's an easy answer for me--because I have had abortions. I did not have to pay someone under the table; I did not have to risk my health in a dirty clinic; I did not have to wait on a street corner wearing white gloves waiting for a stranger to pick me up and take me to a strange place as women did pre-Roe. I was able to make the choice as to when--or, as it turned out, if--to have children.
LadyRed at Postcards from Guyville says:
Now, I've always been against forced birth on principle, because women's bodies are not machines or property and women are not slaves. Or, perhaps I should say, because women should not be enslaved. Even in the decade and a half I've spent on vacation from the threat of sperm, I've done what I could to protect women from forced birth.
Oh, and check out this piece I have at Huffington Post.
More links after the jump.
Majikthise: Happy anniversary, Roe
Feministe: Why I’m Pro-Choice
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Blogging For Choice Day: Why I Am Pro-Choice
Culturekitchen: NC-18
Mamacita: Top Ten Reasons That I Am Pro-Choice
My Left Nutmeg: Blog for Choice
The Countess: Today Is Blog For Choice Day
Reclusive Leftist: Blog for Choice
Feminist Law Professors: Today is Blog For Choice Day: Try a Little Emergency Contraception Activism!
Pandagon: Blogging For Choice and beyond choice
Shakespeare's Sister: Blog for Choice Day, Three reasons why I am pro-choice
BlogHer: Today is Blog for Choice Day 2007
Dana at Campus Progress: Why I'm Pro-Choice

I just blogged for choice, but not sure where to officially "sign up..."
Happy Anniversary Roe!
(not my best work, but i'm not feeling 100%)
http://thelittlerinothatcould.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-for-choice-2007.html
I'm late, wasn't sure I could participate on time. But my post is up now at StarWatcher's Spot -- http://starwatcher307.livejournal.com/167436.html
My first attempt at blogging for choice is up at my blog. I'll try to write more later. (Warning: it's a bit rambling. I bit off a bit more than I could chew.)
I'm not finding a place to sign up. URL takes me to a list of participants, but that's all.
So. My post is at
http://madeater.blogspot.com/2007/01/im-adjective-and-i-verb.html
Excellent project. I'm glad to be able to participate.
I guess I didn't sign up in time. But I blogged. Told a tale from my youth that nobody knew before today. Here's my link.
Thank you for all of your hard work organizing this! My take
Blogging for choice from the UK:
http://thegirlfrommarz.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/why-i-am-pro-choice/
I just posted an entry on my blog - not sure where to send it. It is here:
http://supersnark.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogging-for-choice.html
Thank you for the opportunity!!!
I blogged for choice!
http://hil4prez2036.livejournal.com/133167.html
I blogged for Freedom and Life. Thanks for the inspiration. I oppose draconian anti-abortion law but I do see an awful lot of folks ignoring the fact that women are empowered as to whether or not to have sex with a fertile male. Only if she did not have that choice and sex was forced upon her does an abortion choice make sense to me.
Here's one from the mother of a little girl, about chosing to live the life you want to live.
http://askyourmother.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/blog-for-choice/
I've got something up about motherhood and choice!
http://tikvahgirl.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-for-choice-mothers-choice.html
And mine...
http://tikvahgirl.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-for-choice-mothers-choice.html
Mine is here, for my blog Life at Paradux Hill:
http://riverheart.livejournal.com/559908.html
I also wrote mine too late to sign up, so I'm linking it here... The Meaning of "Life": Why I am Pro-Choice.
Here's my blog for choice: http://neverthateasy.blogspot.com/2007/01/today-is-blog-for-choice-day-and.html
trackback
This is my 2nd year blogging for choice and it is one of my favorite things to blog about!
Mine can be found here:
http://www.wannabehippie.com/2007/01/blog_for_choice.php
Here's mine. It's not very good, but I was sort of rushed :/
http://feministstotherescue.blogspot.com/2007/01/roe-v-wade-my-personal-department-of.html
I blogged about it on my livejournal--not so good, but from the heart.
http://bethynyc.livejournal.com/596372.html
I blogged for choice today, too.
I'm just now hearing about this, but I'd like to join in!
The sign-up doesn't appear to be on the site anymore, but here's my contribution. :)
Thanks!
Blog for Choice
Thanks for doing this....
I blogged for choice @ http://boogiewhaa.blogspot.com/
Hmmm...my comment came up on under commenter "Housewife" how strange...
Well anyway-Again, I blogged for choice at http://boogiewhaa.blogspot.com/
Here's my contribution. It's not as eloquent as most of the posts I've seen, but it's something...
Also, here's my SO's post, which is far better than mine. :)
I couldn't get mine up until after 7 on account of work and the gym but I'm happy to contribute all the same http://furiousfemale.livejournal.com
http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-i-am-pro-choice.html
I posted at http://spacegoo.blogspot.com/.
I love reading people's reasons. The variety alone is reason to cherish Roe V. Wade
I wrote another post. It's a bit off the main topic, but still about choice and all that. Specifically, it's about the creepy fetishization of the fetus in our culture, and some speculation on my part as to where it comes from.
My post is at:
http://cognosco.blogsome.com/2007/01/22/why-i-am-pro-choice/
My post: http://www.empowerment4women.org/community/blogs/thegreatestblog/?p=104#respond
I couldn't find the sign up - but I did blog for choice. Here:
http://avalonne.livejournal.com/71701.html
here's my post
-- It's my body so it's my decision
I'm in! Didn't know about BFC until tonight, but I'm in!
I'm in- I didn't know about blog for choice until tonight, but I caught up!
www.amaniellen.org
Another late entry:
http://sittingstill.typepad.com/sitting_still/2007/01/blogging_for_ch.html
My Post can be found here:
Blogging for Choice: A Confession - How I went from being "Pro-Life" to "Pro-choice"
Thanks for the opportunity, Jessica.
My post is entitled ~Treat~.
I was given Plan B after my rape. I can't tell you how grateful I was for that option. Speak out against rape and for your rights as a woman!
http://anallegoryofthecave.blogspot.com/
I posted mine both on my website and my livejournal.
Blogging for Choice
Blogging for Choice
I also joined in here.
My post at Women's Health News
http://kellyology.blogspot.com/2007/01/whats-your-choice.html
I participated here;
http://www.slowdance13.livejournal.com
thank you for taking a stand on a sensitive issue. i am glad to be a part of it.
I blogged for choice regarding women here in the UK, and women universally.
How can you trust me with a baby if you can't trust me with a choice?
Blog for Choice Day.
Did mine, it's very disjointed, thanks to a double whammy of medication, but I did it!
http://ohmonkeytrumpets.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-for-choice-day_22.html
Here's my post. Thanks for hosting this!
http://theblogthatatemanhattan.blogspot.com/2007/01/making-choices.html
I blogged for Choice!
My anti-choice mom suffered a childbirth fistula and feared death by another pregnancy. A philandering priest urged her to chemically burn me to extort abstinence from dad. I wish she aborted me! I’ve experienced nothing but hate and drudgery from everyone because of my scars. My one best friend was gruesomely killed by her last daughter–-the pregnancy triggered lethal face cancer which ate her nose, eye, ear, lips, skin and brain. Anti-choicers forget Dear Abby’s famous survey in which 80% regretted having kids. “Pro-life” is PRO-PEDOPHILIA!
I never thought of abortion as a breath of life. Now I do. 15 months ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Being young and not married, my partner and I had a very big decision to make.
I ended up telling my mom the day after I found out. What she told me has left a large imprint on my heart.
She told me that the first time my father and her had slept together that she had gotten pregnant. At the time, she was in the middle of a divorce from her first husband whom she had my brother and sister with. Afraid that getting pregnant at this time would affect her custody battle, not to mention make it almost impossible to affoard 3 kids on her own, my mother had an abortion.
She told me that she believed that if she hadn't had the abortion, that she never would have had me.
Because my mother gave up that child, she was able to give life to me.
I chose to have my daughter, which continues to be the best decision that I have ever made, however, I am proud that I had that choice. And I will continue to fight so that my daughter may have the same freedom and choice that my mother and I had.
Late reporting.
http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-for-choice-day.html