Saturday, January 22, 2005

 

January 22, 1973 - Roe v. Wade

32 years ago today, The United State Supreme Court delivered a 7 to 2 decision in the case of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision which made abortion legal. I am a firm believer in the rights of women, and this one was one of the biggest ever. Six years later following this decision, I would come to question my belief. I was maried at the time, and my wife became pregnant and decided on her own to have an abortion. I did not know of this until the day she went to the clinic for the procedure and she was forced to ask me to drive her there when her other person who was supposed to drive her bailed out at the last minute. I found out that even though we were married, I had no rights whatsoever in this decision. Later I was to find out, or at least I suspect, the baby might not have been mine. It seems she fell in love with another man and a few weeks later, left me for him, with the divorce following a couple of months later. Anyway, even though I have some residual bad feelings about this particular abortion, I still support this decision of the Supreme Court which made it possible. I find it reprehensible that people would use violence to protest at clinics where birth control information is dissementated. I realize an abortion is an after the fact method, as is the "morning after" pill to prevent concepton, but that is NO excuse for using violence as a form of protest. Get with the program people, there is a right and a wrong way to lodge a protest, and bombs in birth control clinics or hurting people who work there is simply the wrong way to go about it. You make me want to puke on you and your followers who would use violence to make a point. You are no better than any other terrorist.

Posted by: Rowlfe - at: 1/22/2005 08:44:00 PM

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