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

[hamsterjill]

1. Seconded

For my own daughter!

[pleah]

2. K&R :) Yes, legal, safe choices are a right we have to protect.

:)

[county worker]

3. Maybe now all the churches around here will get rid of the little white crosses on their lawns.

[niyad]

4. and for anyone who doesn't realize how serious this is--I recommend "the handmaid's tale" by

margaret atwood. the thing still gives me nightmares--although I think I can breathe just a tiny bit easier without some fundie hack in the people's house getting to appoint anti-choice judges.