15 April 2009

Clarification

I wanted to comment on my choice of slide background for my presentation. I chose the image below because I wanted to say that women ought to be able to get an abortion and not have to resort to using dangerous, scary, unsanitary and gross methods of abortion like a clothes hanger. People made noises like I was doing something wrong when in fact I was making a statement against the fact that people have to resort to 'homemade' abortions. I am decidedly pro-choice and part of the pro-choice platform deals with safety and health of women. If a woman has to resort to a clotheshanger for an abortion they are putting their health and safety in jeopardy, and their lives are being risked because the state they live in does not allow abortions for how far along they are in their pregnancy or because they have mandatory reporting laws which make it impossible for some girls to get abortions because they will be disowned by their families.


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