I know it's late but I've been trying to figure this out...

I went to see the caps play tonight(we lost) and on the way home I saw an ad on the metro that really bothered me. It was a smiling women next to a quote saying "Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women." I was confused and half thought that I had an article in that comment somewhere so I jotted it down along with the website that sponsered it (www.womendeservebetter.com) I've been looking through it and I happened across one of its partner links "Feminists for Life." There slogan is "Refuse to Choose" with a big old picture of little children and an old asian man...but the picture isn't the problem...

...as if having the choice was the problem. See I always figured it was the choice that seperated us from everyone else. Having a society that, while not perfect, recognizes women as people not just a means to an end. How can you call your self a feminist and refuse to choose...adoption is a choice, as is birth control or abstinence...they're as much of a choice as abortion is for a 14 year-old that just got raped.

We have a president that would gladly take away our choice. We have male senators and representatives that would do the same. You can't pass out condoms at school because it would seem to condone that behavior... like we weren't going to do it anyway.... I never thought I'd see a supposedly feminist organization telling me I deserve better... But they're right. I do. I deserve much better than this current adminstration. I deserve safe procedures. I deserve descretion and privacy. I deserve secrecy. I deserve to not tell my parents. I deserve a society that doesn't not feel the need to going poking around my uterus imposing laws because it thinks it has a right. It doesn't. It never has. It never should have been allowed. The courts ruled on Roe v. Wade decades ago. I deserve not to have some puritanical redneck that to quote someone else "couldn't find his own ass with two hands and a flashlight" decided what stays or goes inside me.