I am blogging for choice because the alternative isn't an option.

Abortion is a difficult topic for me because I don't really like the idea, myself. That doesn't mean that I would presume to judge anyone who has made the choice to get an abortion, only that I don't think it's a choice I would make unless I felt like I had no other option. Regardless of how, I, personally feel, or what choices I would make, abortion has to remain an option.

I know history well enough to know that when abortion was illegal, people still got abortions. The wealthy were slipped out of the country to somewhere it was legal, and the poor made due with street doctors, at best. And I don't even want to look into what this situation did to the mortality rate of children. This wasn't a good idea then, and it's still not a good idea. It will never be a good idea.

I also feel like many pro-life (anti-choice?) people are naive and very deluded about what life is like for others. If they really wanted to cut down on the number of people having abortions, they would make birth control free and widely available to all people, they would work to make adoption a viable choice, make sure all people had access to good prenatal care, make sure all people had living wages, make sure all people had access to day care, and whatever other family-friendly things I've missed.

I know I want people to have all of those things. To me, that's part of being pro-choice. I want a world that supports whatever decision a person makes about having kids. Instead, I'm living in a world where insurance pays for Viagra, but not for birth control.