Blog For Choice Day

[callistra]

I am pro-choice because I believe NO ONE has the right to tell me what I can and can't do with my own body. I believe I have the RIGHT to remove an unwanted pregnancy if I so desire, and that the only other people who can have a say in this is my partner, and realistically this is a CHOICE of mine and not a right of his. You don't own it cos you fucked it. I have the RIGHT to have this performed in a medically safe and approved manner. My body is MINE.

I think Lauredhel wrote a better rant about how women are legally children. Go and read it.

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[zey.livejournal.com]

Where that "interesting" argument becomes tiresome and instantly evaporates is at the point when the arguer finds out that financial child support is a child's right, not a parent's.

Yes and no. The born child certainly has a right to exist and be supported in some way.

That debate's more about who has the responsibility to foot the bill: the one who actually wanted the baby and had the right and responsibility to choose (to keep the bub, abort or put up for adoption) -- or the guy she bonked one night ;-).

I'm sure there are lots of genuine "deadbeat Dads" around, who don't pay mandated child support costs for children of broken relationships. Yep, they're villains: they accepted responsibility for a child and are now trying to duck it after the fact. But that's a whole separate debate on a different issue.