Abortion

Now as everyone knows, I tend to have very strong views on a lot of things.  As I discovered during French class today, it doesn't matter what language I'm speaking in, I believe everyone deserves respect for their own choices.

"Vrai ou Faux:  Herve a raison de ne pas vouloir annoncer sa seropositivite a ses parents."
True or false: Herve had reason to not announce his positivity [for AIDS] to his parents.

After a long discussion to Tiffany about how I thought this question wasn't even relevant because "sa raison est sa raison.  S'il est notre raison ca sera different" my response was:

"Il a toujours le droit de l'avouer a les personnes qu'il a choisi.  C'est pas notre place pour le juger."
He always has the right to confess it to the people he has chosen.  It's not our place to judge.

Now, the main idea behind this question was to talk about how he revealed having AIDS to the entire world through his book but not to his parents in person.  However, I got totally off and only wanted to talk about how it's not for us to decide whether his reasons were valid because he had already done it and we don't need to discuss whether he had reasons because OBVIOUSLY HE DID in order to do it.

What does this have to do with abortion?

Absolutely everything.

I, personally, believe that everyone has the right to their own bodies.  I am 100% pro-choice.  I know that people are going to have abortions whether or not I like it; so I think that there should be safe, available, legal options.

I know that I would never undergo an abortion, but I also know that I will never put myself in that situation in the first place.  I don't believe in pre-marital sex and I believe that God will give me a child if He has the desire to do so.

That being said, I don't have the authority to tell someone they can't do what they want with their bodies.  No one is going to physically murder their baby, that's just ridiculous.  People that have abortions have them for reasons or THEY WOULDN'T HAVE THEM.

Yes.  I am yelling about this.  Aren't you?

Here's the next little tidbit (it comes directly from my mother):

[to be said in a derogatory mother-like tone]

"If the Catholic church, or anyone else for that matter, is going to tell those girls they can't have an abortion they need to support them BEFORE they get pregnant, DURING the pregnancy, and AFTER they have the child.  They need to help them, not take away their options without a replacement option."

Oh goodness gracious I totally agree with my mother and it's frightening.  Dislike.

Anyways, that's what I think about abortion and respect for personal choices.  Aight.