Yes, I’m Pro-Choice. Get over it.

Not sure why the “Pro-Life” folks have decided to keep allowing the zealots to come to the group meetings, but I’m thinking maybe they need to re-evaluate things.

I got dragged into an argument (my fault, I went to WalMart and was minding my own business, a sure recipie for disaster in that place) between two women, one that had the poor taste to wear a button with a “choice” message on her purse.

The zealots don’t listen, and that’s probably because they are too busy screaming and picketing, and demanding that Roe vs. Wade be overturned, and when they get time they are screaming we need a Constitutional Ammendment that defines “marriage” as being between a man and a woman. That’s a pretty full schedule there, so actually talking to someone that’s Pro-Choice would take intelligence, and patience, and listening.

I’m not sure how Pro-Choice got jobbed into meaning “Pro-Abortion”. I’ve never seen a Choice rally where the people on the podium advocated women abort as many unborn as possible. I’ve seen them in favor of women keeping their rights to choose how they want to live their lives. So let’s get this one out there for the Pro-Life people to ignore yet again.

Pro-Choice is NOT “Pro-Abortion”.

I can’t; in my worst mood, see a woman that finds herself unexpectedly pregnant flipping her hair and thinking she’ll just pop the thing out like a pimple. I can’t begin to imagine a woman’s thoughts over deciding to have or not have an abortion. But I can say that as a man it’s not my place to slap down any deterrents if in the end a woman decides that because of the circumstances in her life, she must choose to get an abortion.

As a man, I don’t have to suffer the hormone changes, the body changes, and all the natural consequences of a pregnancy. How can I possibly agree that a woman be forced to bear a child to term, or be considered a lawbreaker?

I would never suggest a woman get an abortion. If my daughter came to me and said she was pregnant and was considering one, then I would talk to her about other options, but in the end the decision would have to be hers to make.

Back to the argument. The woman that was vehemently Pro-Life asked me if I thought abortion should be legal. I’m afraid I tripped her up when I asked what she was doing to provide for the children that were born to women that didn’t want them. Did she make or buy diapers, formula, and clothes? Did she offer to care for the babies while the mothers went and found work? No to both questions. Stumped her I’m afraid when I asked what her ideas were about all the children – obviously unwanted – being born to mothers that couldn’t afford to care for them.

That’s my biggest problem with the Pro-Lifers (well, after their habit of shooting and killing doctors that perform abortions that is). It seems the Pro-Lifers are all about the stopping, but nothing about the consequences of their victory. I don’t see the Pro-Life people or the “Moral Majority” providing for the care of the children. It’s more important that these unwanted offspring make it into the world. Then they can be part of the ugly statistics of increased child abuse, which allows them to grow up and be much more likely to commit a felony, and end up in prison.

Oh hold it. Maybe the Pro-Life people are thinking ahead. Seems most of them are in favor of the Death Penalty. But if I were to suggest that they make their motto “Save The Fetus So We Can Fry The Felon” I’d catch all kinds of Hell.