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I am pro-choice. I don't believe that the government nor protestors have any right to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body.
I will never forget when, about a year ago, I ran into an old friend of mine back at home. We had lost contact with each other after middle school. When her parents died in a car accident, she went from one foster home to another. Got into some bad drugs and was in and out of jail. She was a mess. She told me about how she had just gotten an abortion. Although she has since tried to get her life back in order with a part-time job at a retail store and she was going to junior college, she said she wasn't ready to have a child. Her reason why, "I hardly have the means to support myself nontheless a child. I ruined my own life. Why do that to my child?" Adoption was not an option for her. She couldn't bear the thought that there was someone out there who was biologically hers but belonged to another family. Also,her job entailed standing on her feet for 8 hours which something she could not do towards the last 3 months of pregnancy. For three months, she would have no source of income. She said that abortion was the best thing she ever did. She also said that if she kept the child, she would not be able to care for it 100% and the government would take the child from her and put it in a foster home....just as she was.
Maybe an abortion is not right for all people but it was for her. A girl who had already been through so much and was finally piecing her life back together did not need to go through it all over again.
If I were pregnant, I'm not sure what I would do. Pregnancy, although a beautiful thing, can be so scary for someone who is, quite frankly, a child herself. You never know what you would do until you're in a situation like that. And that is why I believe that every woman should have the option to have abortion if she so chooses.
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