Happy Anniversary Roe v. Wade! Blogging for Choice Day

I have been trying to get this post out all day, but my life interfered.

I am Pro-Choice.  I am not Pro-Abortion.  

As a matter of fact, I am very much Pro-Life as it applies to my body.  I can say this, secure in the fact that the factory is now closed and I will never be faced with an unplanned, unwanted or tragic pregnancy.  I was never faced with one of those circumstances.  I am lucky.  Some of my friends - not so much.

I have a daughter.  It is for her sake that I will continue to pray that abortion remain safe, legal and unnecessary.

Yes - I pray that we eliminate abortion.

I pray that we eliminate abortion by eliminating the demand for it.  We can do that by properly educating our children about the beauty of abstinence, but the need for safe sex and pregnancy prevention. 

We can do that by not cutting funding for pre-natal care, neo-natal care, pediatric care, WIC, Head Start, Early Intervention and school lunches.  Let's help those women so perhaps they won't see such a bleak future should they carry the baby to term.

I hope that my daughter remains a virgin until she is old enough to handle sex and all the issues that come with it.  But despite my mother's best efforts, I did not...and I have to face the very real possibility that my daughter might not as well.

And while I won the fertility crap-shoot for more than 20 years, my daughter may not.  I would hope that she would come to me if this happens.  Together we can figure out what is the best option for HER.  Not for me.  Not for our church.  Not for the politicians. 

The choice must remain hers and hers alone.

(and with that, I'll end because I am rambling and so many other women said it better than me today.)