Comments on: Choose Life

By: Sticky

Sticky — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:31:23 +0000

Mighty useful. Make no mistake, I appreiatce it.

By: gina

gina — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:34:51 +0000

While your post is thoughtful and informed by your own experience, I have two objections. First, you used the term “proabortionist”. Those of us are who are pro-choice are not PRO-abortion. We are pro-contraception, pro-education, and we believe that women should have autonomy in their physical, sexual and medical lives. Access to safe abortion services is but a small part of that. You could say we are pro-access (and thus pro-choice), but “pro-abortionist” is an insulting term often used by the ant-choice side.

Second, you probably realize that “choose life” is a phrase that has (unfortunately) been co-opted by the “pro-life” movement. Since the primary agenda of that movement is to restrict or remove access to abortion for all women, that phrase really cannot be separated from their agenda. I appreciate that you may have been trying to rehabilitate its meaning, but I don’t think that’s possible at this point. The code is too well-understood: “choose life” = eliminate abortion access.

By: Donna in Delaware

Donna in Delaware — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:03:53 +0000

Well said, both of you!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:41:53 +0000

Maria, Maya – thank you.

By: Maya

Maya — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:33:25 +0000

As the baby in question in this blog post, I would like to add this: I got to grow up knowing that my mother chose to have me when she had the option of abortion or adoption. I got to grow up knowing I was WANTED. That is a profound, amazing, humbling, lovely and wonderful thing to know. Being my mother’s daughter (in both sense of the phrase) I also CHOOSE LIFE.

By: Maria (farm country kitchen)

Maria (farm country kitchen) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:27:20 +0000

Dear Jennifer and all my wonderful readers,

I am not “pro-life” I am “Choose-life.” The number one proven factor that will reduce overpopulation on this planet is the education of women.The more a woman is educated, the fewer children she will bear in her lifetime, and the more likely she will be to take care of them. Also, to the bible mentioners — I have read the bible front to back (the English Oxford version — old and new testament) and can safely say that it is rife with contradictions — which is why anyone can find anything to support any argument about anything. I strongly urge everyone to read it in full. It only took me three years!

CHOOSE LIFE!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:11:02 +0000

Maria, I have one question for you. How do you reconcile your “pro-life” views with the fact that overpopulation of humans is killing off so many other species of life? I am pro-choice, but when I see a woman who has an unwanted pregnancy, I like to have her examine the point of view that if she does not want that baby, well the earth really doesn’t want it either. From the Earth’s point of view there are too many of us and just by living our lives, we are killing off her other creatures. Your “pro-life” decision is really just a pro-Human life decision. It is not a decision that benefits all life. Human overpopulation reduces the diversity and resilience of all life on earth and so we end up degrading the earth. Ultimately, when we look into the future, if we don’t do more to curb human overpopulation and stop the degradation of the earth’s ecosystems, then we are reducing the number of humans who will be able to inhabit this planet in the future. Sometimes the most Pro-life decision is the decision to abort.

By: nancy m

nancy m — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:58:48 +0000

I appreciate all the above blogs….however, another issue for me is the man’s defense that “claimed in his defense that he was justified because he opposed abortion”, which would mean that we can all do whatever we want based on our own belief system, including murder. This, I think, was largely the basis for the jury finding him guilty in such a short time, since the abortion/prolife debate is never an easy one. It is never easily defined nor aggreed upon.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:22:57 +0000

Maria – great writing. We’d love to have you as a guest contributor on our site http://www.MidLifeCafe.com. We have a daily section called High Heels, written by women for women. Interested? Thanks for another well-written post.
Rhonda
rchaney.midlifecafe@gmail.com

By: Patty

Patty — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:22:50 +0000

Love the post Maria! You, like all of us are spirtual beings having a human experience. God lives within each of us rather than “up there” highlighting our dual man/spirit nature.