Reply #15: Thanks for your post

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and once again, you are 100% correct--those who have never been in such a position should stay the fuck out of the argument. It makes me recall the photo several years ago when congress signed off on the partial-birth abortion ban, and the signers were all white middle-aged men.

My own story is from the other side of the picture: born in 1956, my mother was pretty much what we might consider a whore nowadays--she had like 7 babies, the only one she acknowledged was the oldest one, and she gave away or sold the rest--I happened to be one of the "giveaways" who went to my biological mother's brother to be raised. My grandmother got tired of sending her away someplace to have a baby, because of course single mothers were looked down on back then, and an abortion was out of the question. Once a guy asked me if I wasn't glad that abortion had been illegal, because otherwise I wouldn't have been born, and I answered him as simply as I could: I said why should I be glad because I was born--if an abortion had been possible, I wouldn't be in existence, and how could I judge something if I didn't exist in the first place?

You would think I might support the anti-choice group because of that, but my stance is that every one is an individual and choices are made by people for their own reasons, and that's what "choice" means. If these people would stop trying to make their choice OUR choice, the world would be a much happier and peaceful one.