I Am A Pro-Choice Voter

I am a Pro-Choice Voter

I am a single issue PRO-CHOICE voter !!!

There can be no more important issue for any woman than the right to avoid involuntary servitude as a mother. Thus access to information about contraception , access to methods of contraception, and access to abortion are crucial.

These issues are NOT unimportant to men either. We now have the DNA technology to identify the sire of every accidental conception and therefore the ability to nail him for child support if that conception is carried to term.

If the daddy does not pay support, then all too often the taxpayers must do so through Welfare and Aid to Dependant Children.

Moreover if neither the mommy nor the daddy are willing to do the work of actually raising the child, then who will do so ? Institutional child rearing is both extremely expensive (taxpayer expense again) and too often results in an adult who is emotionally , socially, and intellectually stunted and thus ill-prepared to be a contributing and law-abiding citizen.

Finally, there is no turning the clock back to pre 1970s.

Women's economic participation in the workforce has become indispensible to the national economy and to the support of her family (including any children she already has). Threat of involuntary pregnancy and parenthood erodes women's oppertunities in the workplace.

Finally, let me remind everyone that if normal methods of abortion become illegal, difficult, or dangerous, demand for the French Abortion Pill, RU 486 , will instantly skyrocket. The same government police actions that have so spectacularly failed to keep heroin and cocaine out of the hands of those who want them will be equally unable to keep RU 486 out of the hands of those who need it -- and the insturctions for use and ordering will be uncensorably available on the Internet. Goddess bless the Internet !

• Health Care Reform , Contraception, & Abortion : why the religious arguements for exclusion are invalid. (Guarranteed to offend the Rabid Right).
• Roe v Wade and the 13th Amendment : a discussion of why Roe did not go far enough and why restrictions on contraception and abortion violate the 13th Amendment which forbids slavery and involuntary servitude. (note : this article may offend some readers.)
• You Say that You Dislike Abortion : about all the things that those who say they oppose abortion should be supporting to reduce the need for abortion, ie to reduce unwanted and problem pregnancies. (guaranteed to outrage the Rabid Right and Anti-Choicers everywhere)
• Why Safe and Legal Abortion Matters (even to those who would never use it)
• I will be writing an article "Who Will Raise the Unaborted Child" about the real issue in human life and reproduction. Namely that an infant will not survive without at least one adult or near-adult who is willing to raise that infant to an age of independance. An infant will not attain the qualities of normal personhood, cognizance, sociability, etc without at least one adult or near-adult who does an adequate job of raising that child. While society may be able to coerce a girl or woman to conceive and gestate a child to live birth, it is impossible to coerce anyone to be a loving and responsible and competent parent and child-rearer.
• It's Deja Vu All Over Again : why California's Proposition 4 is just as bad as the previously rejected Prop 85 two years ago and Prop 73 four years ago. All three of these attempt to require parental notification when an underage woman seeks an abortion. (note : the very people who will be offended are the ones who most need to read this.)
• From "Juno" to Juneau : the Sarah Palin soap opera illustrates why reproductive choice is crucial to everyone.