Really it's about choice, so my blog for choice could be about anything, right? Not just a woman's right to choose? "Just" a woman's right to choose; listen to me.

Being completely honest here, I have been on both sides of the coin. I've been a little suprised by pregnancy, and I've been assaulted. When I was surprised by pregnancy, I chose to keep my baby. (Frankly, it wasn't even a question to me.) But I was married and had expected to try again anyway, so it was really just a matter of the timing taken out of my hands. The other one -- the assault. That's the kicker for me. Nobody has the right to tell me that, should I survive being sexually assaulted, I might have to love and raise a genetic reminder of that crime.

Now, I was lucky (if you broaden the meaning of the word). The guy who raped me did not get me pregnant (I was on the pill for endometriosis at the time, which definitely helped), but did give me chlamydia. I found out pretty quickly, so hopefully there wasn't any lasting damage. But that was bad enough.

I don't take the negative result of abortion lightly. I'm a mother and I believe in G-d -- two things that greatly add to the impact of anything happening to a developing life. I can't even watch movies or read books where women lose their children -- before or after birth. But if you haven't been pregnant and you haven't been assaulted in a way that effects your ability to be intimate for the rest of your life, you have no right to tell me that I can't save my own body or sanity.