Pro-choice week

by elliehutch @ 2006-10-27 - 16:10:41

Pro-choice week is running from the 23rd-29th October. While abortion is a painted as a highly controversial issue, the bottom line is that it is about choice. You may not feel comfortable with it or you may feel passionately about it, but ultimately it is about respect for choice and personal freedoms. It is about not "allowing" a woman control over her body and her life but it is respecting that control that should have always been there. Abortion happens and has happened for decades,centuries maybe even millenia but we are still led to believe that it is a shameful, guilt ridden act that is esssentially murder. The facts and figures are there though- unsafe abortion kills an estimated 68,000 women every year globally and accounts for 13% of all pregnancy-related deaths.(from not a feminist..) So whilst the anti-choice ( I refuse to call them pro-life, I am pro-choice but not pro-death)lobby contests that women are killing their unborn child what they forget to mention is that they themselves, as a group, are effectively killing a living human being 68,000 times a year.
For more info go to Abortion Rights homepage as to how you can help save the lives and uphold the freedoms of your sisters, mothers, friends,daughters,neices, ourselves and the lives of women around the world who have yet to be "given" the right to control their own body.

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