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- I am pro choice. I don't think that we should be making choices for others.
-Even sterilization is not 100% effective. I know of at least one woman who got pregant while nursing her 2 month old, 2 months after her husband's vasectomy. (She didn't abort, but I wouldn't blame her if she had! The woman had 3 kids in 3 years!)
-It is completely unrealistic to expect married couples who don't want (more) children to not have sex. Abstinence might be a good answer for college students, but not for all women in all situations.
-One of the most disturbed kids I ever worked with in child psych was a 7 year old who was the product of a gang rape ... he knew it. Even if a child who is the product of rape is adopted out, by forcing that woman to complete that pregnancy, changing her entire lifestyle, forcing her to go through the pain and trauma of labor, dealing with people asking questions about her pregnancy or passing judgment on her for being pregnant, making her to re-live that rape every day until that child is born is cruel punishment to a victim. Then she also gets to worry that this child will find her someday, after she has worked so hard to get through the emotional trauma of the whole situation, she might have to then explain it to her husband and kids. Isn't it enough that she has to deal with the original trauma?
-Although I've had two kids, my primary care doctor still refuses to authorize a tubal ligation for me, because I'm divorced and might get married again and want a baby with my new husband. This, in spite of the fact that I'm on some really scary medications for Crohn's which state that I must prove I'm on birth control before a doc can prescribe them! Get a new primary care doc is the standard answer.. this is next to impossible when you need referrals for things every two weeks. I'm stuck with her until I don't need a specialist's care so frequently (which is quite possibly, never!)
- I left one Catholic church where the priest was organizing some of these psychotic protests at the local WomanCare. That clinic happened to be the place where all the college women went for their routine gynecological visits because it was only $4 a visit. Not everybody going into one of these establishments is going there for an abortion. Some are going for birth control, some are just going for pap smears. Those protesters make me sick.
That's it for now, I think!
Dee
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