Pro-choice is not real choice

A great, bipartisan article on abortion by, Lyn Bender, a woman who had one.

She says that she actually felt that she didn't have a real choice, that abortion was her only option - even in our society which overflows in choice.

Read more here.

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Abortion debate

My post on getup's website on their new pro-choice campaign:

I am pro-choice in the true sense. I believe that a woman has a choice to not fall pregnant. She has the choice to take take the pill, to use an IUD, to use a condom, to use a diaphragm. So many choices.

I only support the the right to have an abortion if those rights to choose have been forcibly taken away from the woman (eg. when she has been raped.)

I don't understand why people on the left of politics (like me), support our Government providing adequate safety nets for the underprivileged in our society, and support big action on climate change (partly because it is the poor of the world who will suffer most if our climate changes), but we don't respect the right of the most defenceless person in our society - the one inside another person - to continue their life outside the womb.

Doesn't this seem strange to anyone else?

I'm a big supporter of most of getup's campaigns - except this one. I think the abortion debate should be taken off getup's radar, because I think we are divided on this one.