Much of the discussion around abortion has been hijacked, or at least confused, by couching it in the high-sounding terms of “a woman’s right to choose.” For the record, I want to officially announce that I am three-fourths pro-choice! But hear me out. A woman has complete freedom to choose whether or not she associates with a man. A…
Much of the discussion around abortion has been hijacked, or at least confused, by couching it in the high-sounding terms of “a woman’s right to choose.” For the record, I want to officially announce that I am three-fourths pro-choice! But hear me out. A woman has complete freedom to choose whether or not she associates with a man. A woman has complete freedom to choose whether or not she becomes intimate with a man. And a woman has complete freedom to choose whether she employs some means of contraception while she is being intimate with a man. To all this I say yes, amen, absolutely - in all of these situations choose! Choose wisely, choose freely, choose consistently, and choose in a timely way! However, if a woman has not chosen thusly, if she has passed on her three opportunities to choose, then it is totally hypocritical to start talking about her “right to choose” after the fact - when a child has already been conceived. (In truth, both the woman and the man have equal choice and responsibility when bringing a child into the world. But since it is the woman who is championed on the placards, I have stuck with that wording.)
Much of the discussion around abortion has been hijacked, or at least confused, by couching it in the high-sounding terms of “a woman’s right to choose.” For the record, I want to officially announce that I am three-fourths pro-choice! But hear me out. A woman has complete freedom to choose whether or not she associates with a man. A woman has complete freedom to choose whether or not she becomes intimate with a man. And a woman has complete freedom to choose whether she employs some means of contraception while she is being intimate with a man. To all this I say yes, amen, absolutely - in all of these situations choose! Choose wisely, choose freely, choose consistently, and choose in a timely way! However, if a woman has not chosen thusly, if she has passed on her three opportunities to choose, then it is totally hypocritical to start talking about her “right to choose” after the fact - when a child has already been conceived. (In truth, both the woman and the man have equal choice and responsibility when bringing a child into the world. But since it is the woman who is championed on the placards, I have stuck with that wording.)