Couldn’t say it better

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/opinion/12michelman.html

This link is an article by Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling.

The illustration with the article shows a woman in flight after being bucked off by a donkey.  I know a lot of feminists who believed this day would never come – they had worked so hard for a woman’s right to choose, they were happy in the achievement that Roe vs. Wade settled the question.   Abortion is legal, they defended.  Anti-choice groups changed their tactics – instead of hitting right on with their arguments that conception begins when sperm finds an egg – they starting getting a support base in the elections, changing one mind at a time and sending that person to represent them and their beliefs.  Bombings still went on at clinics, workers were still threatened, doctors were still shot – but a right that had to be won is now in quicksand.  All the papers seem to focus on is the entire Health Bill and not what it really means to the women of the United States.

Do we HAVE to sacrifice one for the other?  I say not.  If you don’t want an abortion, don’t have one – problem solved.  If you don’t believe in gay marriage, fine.  Marry a person of the opposite sex.

Don’t take my rights to them away because your personal religious belief.