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DISCLAIMER:  This post will have some incendiary topics & opinions.  These are solely the opinions of myself. If anyone wishes to respond you may do so, but please keep it mature, thoughtful & clear.  I will delete any rambling, unpointed or angry remarks made without clear thought to wordage & grammar.


It was brought to my attention a few days ago that the phrase 'right to choose' is almost always associated with the word 'abortion.'

As important a choice as I feel that is to have available, that is not the sole meaning or purpose behind that idea.

The 'right to choose' is just that.  The RIGHT to CHOOSE.  Wether that be religion, sexual preferance, personal identity, the manner of your departure from the mortal coil, unplanned or unwanted pregnancy, the availability & use of medical treatments, or the ability to wear white after labor day without fear.

It's the basic and fundamental RIGHT to CHOOSE.

On a more close to home note, there are many & varied inhibitors to being a single female today.  If certain choices that we currently have available to us were to be threatened, our resources 'in case of emergency' would be severely limited and unappealing. 

Unless I were to become a nun.

Or decided, for safety, to have my reproductive organs completely removed. However that would not prevent disease.

Aside from that, certain opinions portrayed on the topic are neither well constructed nor constructive.

It is not a decision of morality in the case of abortion.  Morality is a deeply interpretive dance.  Two people from the same structure, culture & belief cast can have completely opposing senses of morality. 

It is strictly, simply & has to be completely without reservation a matter of the right to choose. 

There are just too many variables.  Too many scenarios where a woman can be put in the position of having a decision made for you without regard to your safety, well-being, or opinion.

Rape is the perfect example.  In a very dark way. 

That is a choice being completely taken away from you.  And, in the case of a reproductively able woman, that action can take away so many other choices as well.  It is a pebble with infinitely numbered & dangerous ripples.  In the case of that woman, would you say to her:  "Sorry, I know you were grossly violated and traumatised, but now you have a brand new life to care for, born of the monster who physically and mentally assaulted you! Have fun!"

Some women do choose to or have no other resource but to carry that life and make the best possible outcome.  And they excell.  I applaud that strength and beauty with all my being.

However, not everyone is built the same.  Some cannot handle any of it.

Some are way to young.  It takes all types, and this is my point.  It has too broad a scope of possibilities to be put in black & white terms, but should always, like any MEDICAL CARE be available to EVERYONE as a last resort.  NO one wants to EVER have to do it.  But, you must always HAVE THE CHOICE.