So in Part I of this blog, I focused on my general views on the topic of what it means to be Pro-choice as well as how I think we can educate and support teens to prevent unplanned pregnancies and to deal with them more effectively when they do happen. But there are a lot of elements that play into a woman's decision to even consider abortion as an option, and these can cross lines of age, race and economics.
When I first set out to write about this topic, I was poring over research and facts and figures, and then I realized, statistics aren't what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about what being pro-choice means to me, especially in a world where some--not all--opponents of a woman's right to choose seek to cast Pro-Choicers in an increasingly negative light. Because this topic is so consuming and it involves so many different elements of how our systems function, I'm tackling my general views and the issue of teens, sex education and teen pregnancy in this first post, and following it up with a second post that covers the broader I issues I feel need to be addressed before the idea of "choice" as it relates to abortion can be taken off the table as well as the reasons I think Barack Obama is the candidate who best understands the work that needs to be done in the years ahead.
MSNBC and CNN reported on June 6th that Gloria Steinem has endorsed Obama and pledges to work for his election.
This is significant. Hillary supporters who are hurt, angry and threatening to vote for John McCain need to think carefully about what a McCain presidency would mean to them.
There are three very important reasons why women need to support Senator Obama. Even if they forget everything else, these three reasons are why they should vote for Obama:
1. The Supreme Court
2. The Supreme Court
3. The Supreme Court!!!!
Justice John Paul Stevens is 90 and wants to retire. Ruther Bader Ginsberg wants to retire.
A McBush presidency will replace these two justices with right wing neo-cons and Roe V Wade will be overturned therefore making a woman's right to choose again illegal in America.
If you have friends, family members and co-workers who say they will vote for the McBush team for president, please remind them of the the fragile makeup of our Supreme Court and the importance of sending Obama to the White House to keep a woman's right to choose the law of the land.
Gordon
