Blog for Choice Day - Bulleted Points Edition

To honor the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision it's Blog for Choice Day! So I'll participate in blogging on why I support the right to choose. Bulleted point style.

• I don't think large groups of crazy people should make decisions on how all women should treat their bodies. Especially when these people are basing those decisions on sensationalist views and narrow "moral" standards that are tied to religion.
• Women are not walking uteruses. We are real people with different needs, abilities, expectations, and views. Just because some people think our only purpose in life is to have and care for babies doesn't make it true across the board. Being a nurturing mother is great. But some women just don't want children. Not all women hold the same religious or life views as others as well. If you think abortion is evil that's your own thing. You can't impose that value on all other women.
• Quality of life needs to be considered when people talk about the right to life.
• I am terrified of people who try and blame their own psychological problems on abortions as another means to sensationalize anti-choice arguments. Abortion is not the cause of your heavy drug use. Child abuse might be. Abortion is also not the cause of the problems in our society. Close-minded politics, blind hatred supported by supposed righteousness, and inequality are definately not innocent.
• There are over 6.5 billion people in the world and a limited amount of resources. Yeah kind of a weak argument but the point is we need to be responsible.
• I think the people who argue most fervently against abortion rights have thier motives rooted less in the rights of cute little unborn babies and more in the oppression of women.
• If women don't have the choice to pursue legalized abortions, they will seek out other options that are far less desireable. Think coathangers, unlisenced doctors, dumpsters on prom night. Taking away a woman's right to choose to have an abortion will not necessarily reduce the number of abortions that occur. It will reduce the options that women have and drive them to jeopardize their health.
• Rape, incest, sexual assault, sexual abuse, spousal abuse, child abuse. The list goes on like that.
• If a friend of mine gets pregnant and wants to keep her baby, that's fantastic. If I get pregnant at this point in my life, I know I would not be able to support myself or a child through pregnancy at the least. Let's not think about the rest of my life. I would want the ability to choose.