More and More Blogs for Choice

As I said at the beginning of this post, trust is, or should be, a given when it comes to a woman's right to make what I suspect is rarely an easy decision. Yet there is still so much troubling and widespread resistance, a blank refusal to concede that women have that right, the fundamental, unquestionable right, to decide their own reproductive futures. And this on-going social and political obstinacy has already caused, and is still causing, and will for the foreseeable future continue to cause, no end of real suffering and humiliation.

I trust women to make the decision that they feel is best for themselves, for their family, for their lives. I may not always agree with the choice that they make, but part of being Pro Choice means supporting the right to choose, regardless of the choice that she makes.

The moment we make abortion illegal, we're taking away that freedom, that choice. We're saying, "No. We don't trust you to make this decision for yourself."

Anyway, in college I guess I got the reputation for being the girl who not only had a car (very important) but also who wouldn't judge you when she drove you to get an abortion. I have taken three friends to get abortions. None of them ever wanted me to go in with them, so I have waited in the car and the waiting room, but I always felt proud that these women knew they could trust me. Two of the women weren't even people I knew very well, but they heard through the grapevine, I guess, that I'd taken so-and-so, so.....would I mind? I have also taken friends to get emergency contraceptive for the morning after they've been raped. Way more times than I'd like to admit.