tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post5784620944066406354..comments2024-03-06T19:21:15.708-05:00Comments on RealChoice: Standing for women. Never apologize.Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-25496445413249001632010-02-01T01:06:37.931-05:002010-02-01T01:06:37.931-05:00L. "The only "support" I need is my...L. "The only "support" I need is my Plan B.'<br /><br />Although you may still need Plan C after Plan B has failed.Tonal Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03198001091701514327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-20933261560312245962010-01-22T18:27:35.046-05:002010-01-22T18:27:35.046-05:00:):)Ladybughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09101347971678139917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-58785539715440244412010-01-22T10:06:28.525-05:002010-01-22T10:06:28.525-05:00Rachael -- sorry for spelling your name wrong abov...Rachael -- sorry for spelling your name wrong above -- typo! Accidents happen.L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13437332749627332216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-58647486576406646682010-01-22T10:05:21.507-05:002010-01-22T10:05:21.507-05:00Rachel -- nothing wrong with advocating for better...Rachel -- nothing wrong with advocating for better resources for those who seek them. But I used the first-person singular pronoun above for a reason! :) <br /><br />Christina -- you and I have agreed on tubal ligations before. While we might disagree on what is right and wrong once a certain sperm meets a certain egg, we both think it's desirable in some situations that they never meet in the first place.L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13437332749627332216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-62413676199390847612010-01-22T07:56:39.806-05:002010-01-22T07:56:39.806-05:00Happy New Year to you too, L! Welcome back!
I sti...Happy New Year to you too, L! Welcome back!<br /><br />I still wonder why the prochoice lobby, that is so adamant in fighting roadblocks to abortion, allows so many roadblocks to tubal ligation. I get many complaints from prochoice women who have multiple abortions because of paternalistic doctors who refuse them tubal ligations because they're too young, they haven't had enough children yet, they might regret it later, yada yada yada. <br /><br />It seems to me that this would be pretty non-controversial. A tubal ligation is, after all, something that really does involve only the woman making a choice about her own body, and not also about the body of a new human organism. It gives the woman control of her reproductive life. <br /><br />The lobbying efforts are all toward less reliable "prevention" and toward abortion. The resulting dynamic is of women who know they don't want children suffering one contraceptive failure after the other, enduring one abortion after the other, when it could all be prevented if women had as much of a right to control their reproductive destinies via tubal ligation as they do via abortion.<br /><br />It's a puzzler.Christina Duniganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-30674123753778735952010-01-22T05:58:37.474-05:002010-01-22T05:58:37.474-05:00L.,
You may not feel that way, but there are thous...L.,<br />You may not feel that way, but there are thousands of pregnant women out there who lack the support or resources to be pregnant or carrying to term, despite a desire to otherwise, if not for a lack of resources or support. What's wrong with advocating for better resources (affordable prenatal care, day care, educational services, job placement services, housing, etc) for theses women? Do you feel your abortion rights are so threatened that you're willing to place protecting abortion rights over offering other options and real help to other women which ensures that they have a "choice" besides abortion?Ladybughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09101347971678139917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-78902665357201726372010-01-21T23:41:15.944-05:002010-01-21T23:41:15.944-05:00Actually, I came to your blog to catch up and say ...Actually, I came to your blog to catch up and say happy new year, but forgot -- I got distracted by a wave of overwhelming gratitude for my contraception! <br /><br />All the best to you.L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13437332749627332216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-47195658627038552382010-01-21T23:37:44.221-05:002010-01-21T23:37:44.221-05:00"And we won't stop until every child is w..."And we won't stop until every child is welcomed, and every mother given the support and love she deserves."<br /><br />And I won't stop until you keep your "love" off my body, thanks. The only "support" I need is my Plan B. ;)L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13437332749627332216noreply@blogger.com