happy anniversary, roe v wade

[niyad]

Happy Anniversary, Roe v. Wade
By Tina Morrison, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices Columnist, 2009

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. This is a landmine of a subject, I know.

I have a daughter, whom I adore more than I ever thought possible. Nearly four years ago, news of my pregnancy elated my husband and me. We desperately wanted a child and felt truly blessed.

Like most parents, we now desperately want everything that is best for our child. To me, that includes the right to reproductive freedom.

I hope my daughter never knows what it is like to have an unwanted pregnancy. I hope she never has limited access to birth control or emergency contraception. I hope she never has to hold the hand of a friend who has to resort to a back-alley abortion. I hope she makes good choices. But she deserves choices - legal, safe choices.

A choice I hope she never has to make, but am grateful is there.


http://voices.kansascity.com/node/3403

[murielm99]

1. There is one sentence in that piece that brings back

memories.

"I hope she never has to hold the hand of a friend who has to resort to a back-alley abortion."

I remember doing that.

I have lost track of that friend now, some forty years later. I know she survived her experience. I hope she is whole and healthy. I hope she is a grandmother, because we were never sure that she would be able to have the children that she wanted someday.

[Control-Z]

2. I wish the same for your friend.

'I hope she is whole and healthy. I hope she is a grandmother, because we were never sure that she would be able to have the children that she wanted someday.'


So good to hear she survived the experience. So very sad that she, and other women, have had to experience such a frightening and unsafe procedure.