Why I'm Pro-Choice
| By Dana Goldstein - Jan 22nd, 2007 at 1:27 pm EST |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
Today, the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, is Blog for Choice day, and feminist bloggers have decided to take the opportunity to explain why we're pro-choice. So here are my reasons:
I am pro-choice because without the ability to choose if and when I bring children into this world, all the other advances of the feminist movement--from choosing a partner based on love, to ascending the career ladder, to speaking politically, to enjoying sex--are rendered moot.
I am pro-choice because I recognize that the reactionaries who oppose my right to choose are fixated not only on abortion, but on all the component advances of the sexual revolution that allowed women to live full lives both within and outside of the home.
I am pro-choice because my body is my own. It doesn't belong to the state, to my partner, or to my parents. It is mine.
I am pro-choice because accidents happen--especially in a country where many children receive "abstinence-only" sex-ed.
I am pro-choice because abortions are a physically and psychologically safe medical procedure. In fact, they are far safer than pregnancies.
I am pro-choice because we still don't live in a world in which men do 50 percent of domestic labor.
I am pro-choice because my mom raised me to be that way. Thank you, mom.
Why are you pro-choice? Let us know in the comments.
I am pro-choice because without the ability to choose if and when I bring children into this world, all the other advances of the feminist movement--from choosing a partner based on love, to ascending the career ladder, to speaking politically, to enjoying sex--are rendered moot.
I am pro-choice because I recognize that the reactionaries who oppose my right to choose are fixated not only on abortion, but on all the component advances of the sexual revolution that allowed women to live full lives both within and outside of the home.
I am pro-choice because my body is my own. It doesn't belong to the state, to my partner, or to my parents. It is mine.
I am pro-choice because accidents happen--especially in a country where many children receive "abstinence-only" sex-ed.
I am pro-choice because abortions are a physically and psychologically safe medical procedure. In fact, they are far safer than pregnancies.
I am pro-choice because we still don't live in a world in which men do 50 percent of domestic labor.
I am pro-choice because my mom raised me to be that way. Thank you, mom.
Why are you pro-choice? Let us know in the comments.
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One point of disagreement, though:
Assume a world with complete gender equality. Why do you assume men would be doing 50 percent of the domestic labor?
He does more than 50% of the household work. Because, hey, he's a househusband, and that's what they do.
However, I posit to you as follows: Even in a completely gender-equal world, more women will choose the "homemaker" role than men, and thus women will be doing 50% of the housework.
Do you agree? Disagree?
Perhaps I can provide a bit of levity to a pretty entrenched debate.
Just about all of the recent Republican presidential candidates are now running the ubiquitous "exploratory committee" process themselves and are beginning to align themselves with the James Dobson crowd.
Nothing new here of course. But I did hear something pretty funny while I was in Boston for X-mas break.
Senator Kennedy was giving an interview with somebody from the local media and here's what he said about Mitt Romney's sudden alliance with the radical right as it relates to the abortion issue.
When asked about Romney's apparent flip-flopping he remarked that he didn't know where Romney stood on the issue. He said, "I don't think he's Pro-Choice. Rather, I think he's multiple choice."