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I’m Pro-Life — Pro Women
Time to stand with lives of the living — our women!
I have always been in favor of the right of women to abort their pregnancies. This was even before I became a father. Once I became a father, I was even more pro-life, that is, pro-women.
I have daughters and they have a human right to abort their pregnancies, to control their bodies, and to make decisions about their bodies and reproductive rights. I am pretty absolute on this.
Online the last few days, a statement has been circulating on this stand too and people have been sharing and re-posting it. It is a chain post.
Here is part of it:
I‘m pro-life.
Their lives.
Women’s lives.
You don’t get to pick and choose which scenarios should be accepted.
Women’s rights are meant to protect ALL women, regardless of their situation!
The post includes the names and circumstances of women who have had to make reproductive choices under difficulties. The point is be pro-life, supporting women who are alive and need our support.
This is my position. You can call me pro-choice but it is not my choice anyway. But really, I am pro-life, pro-women’s rights, pro-women’s lives. The rest of the chatter about abortion is just political stupidity and religious madness. I ignore it and…