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This is all like, a weird time for this. Seein' as i am leaving work in 22 minutes to frantically rush around doing laundry and packing and food for all ing and going to Haiti tomorrow. But I want to post something I ran across on teh internets. I googled "reasons to be pro-choice" while sitting here this afternoon, because i want to do some general sociological digging, and find out what the peeps are thinking. And by peeps i mean our culture. What are we thinking? Why are we thinking it? These questions are generally fascinating to me. I am one-hundred percent anti-choice, and also consider myself to be a bit of a feminist, so in quiet times here at work I read what people think about things that think them differently from me, to see if maybe perhaps I am wrong, or if maybe perhaps my perspective is small, or needs adjusting, which is surely always the case at least on some level. Especially when I feel very strongly about something. Then I check and re-check.
Anyhow I haven't gotten far in my research, and I intend to do more. But I did find someone's list of 10 reasons to be pro-choice, and this is number nine.

9. The abortion issue isn’t really about “protecting the unborn.” If we examine the other positions that usually go along with being anti-choice, and if we talk honestly about them, we discover that criminalizing abortion is really about making it harder for women to make their own choices about when to have sex, and with whom. Criminalizing abortion is really about reversing the progress toward gender equality we’ve made over the last century. It’s about returning women to the status of second-class citizens. The real reason the religious right embraces the anti-choice stance is because they believe women should be submissive to men. But, saying that straight up would be political poison, so they talk about a “culture of life.”

Anyhow.

I want to go to medical school for many reasons, but one of them is so that I can enable women to be more informed about their reproductive health, and be more capable and enabled to make decisions about when to have sex, and with whom. I don't want to make it harder, I want to make it easier.  Next.

I work every day to further the progress towards gender equality we have made over the last century. With my life, with my words, with my attempts at objectivity. I shudder at the thought of reversing that progress. Next.

Yeah, I want to be a second class citizen. That sounds GREAT. Next.

Yeah, I want to be submissive to men. You all, who know me, you know I do. So much. NEXT.

Hmmm... the culture of life. I have been sad, have been divorced, have watched someone I love die, have tried to commit suicide, have drunk to excess to escape the great pain of living, have been very submerged in darkness and negativity and cynicism. And because of my experiences with these things, I will support a fucking culture of life till the day i die. I fight for it every moment. For myself, for others. It is a real thing, it is not rhetoric...at least to me. For many reasons, being pro-life fits into that fight perfectly. At least for me. I talk about it because it is very, very, very important. Not to disguise the "political poison" of my self-imposed, second class citizen opinions.

At this point, the internets have not given me any reasons to be pro-choice. It has given some very bad and inaccurate reasons that people are pro-life. Dunno. Guess I got some more reading to do.
Later taters.