# Happy Pro-Choice Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530 "2008-01-22T17:38:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/1 "2008-01-22T17:38:48Z")
On this 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade I’m sending a hefty donation to Planned Parenthood, reading some of the stories on [I’m Not Sorry](http://imnotsorry.net/) and nursing some killer cramps. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/2 "2008-01-22T18:07:31Z")
35 years! Wow. Here’s hoping within the next 35 the legality of abortion is assumed rather than contested. ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/3 "2008-01-22T22:49:51Z")
Hear, hear! Celebrating the day with a donation to Planned Parenthood as well. (Where’s the wine-toasting smiley when you need it?) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/4 "2008-01-23T00:59:17Z")
This day lets me refocus my efforts to get one more Justice before Bush leaves offices so that we can end America’s Holocaust of the unborn… ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/5 "2008-01-23T01:21:35Z")
[QUOTE=jtgain] This day lets me refocus my efforts to get one more Justice before Bush leaves offices so that we can end America’s Holocaust of the unborn.. [/QUOTE] I was under the impression that a holocaust required the deaths to involve fire? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/6 "2008-01-23T01:40:56Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/7 "2008-01-23T01:43:16Z")
May all the babies born into the world be loved and wanted, and may the women of the world have comfort, support, and strength in their choices–no matter what they are. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/8 "2008-01-23T01:46:52Z")
I’ve certainly enjoyed my reproductive freedom and I hope all the women of America continue to enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/9 "2008-01-23T01:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] On this 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade I’m sending a hefty donation to Planned Parenthood, reading some of the stories on [I’m Not Sorry](http://imnotsorry.net/) and nursing some killer cramps. [/QUOTE] While I don’t like the concept of abortion, I would never say it should be illegal. But that site makes me sick. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/10 "2008-01-23T01:57:08Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] May all the babies born into the world be loved and wanted, and may the women of the world have comfort, support, and strength in their choices–no matter what they are. [/QUOTE] And may people remember that many babies are loved and wanted by their adoptive parents. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/11 "2008-01-23T02:32:06Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] May all the babies born into the world be loved and wanted, and may the women of the world have comfort, support, and strength in their choices–no matter what they are. [/QUOTE] I couldn’t possibly think of a better way to say it than this. Thanks, **Kythereia**. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/12 "2008-01-23T02:51:12Z")
How do you like that – Sunday is also the 20th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in Canada. I’m going to a demo. Keep up the good fight. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/13 "2008-01-23T02:59:00Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] How do you like that – Sunday is also the 20th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in Canada. I’m going to a demo. Keep up the good fight. [/QUOTE] I will be 36 in July! whew! Dodged a bullet! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/14 "2008-01-23T06:07:47Z")
Hooray! I would die for my Mom’s right to an abortion. (Not that she specifically is exactly fertile any more, but the principle remains the same. It is often brought to my attention that “What if your mother had decided to abort you?”. I stand ready to defend her right to do that, and by extension any woman’s right to do so.) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/15 "2008-01-23T06:13:31Z")
Pro-choice here. I hope women will _always_ have the freedom to choose. Still, it bothers me that the U.S. is moving backward. The fact that 3 Republican Presidential candidates declare that they don’t believe in evolution is scary. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/16 "2008-01-23T06:18:23Z")
Well, I certainly wouldnt pass up the opportunity to adopt a child. If I had the means to provide a home for an expecting woman that needs it - I would do that as well. And it was refreshing to see a recent movie about teenage pregnancy that didnt end up in abortion. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/17 "2008-01-23T07:41:35Z")
What stuns me is that many people are unaware that if Roe vs. Wade were overturned, the power to regulate the right to get an abortion would return to the states. Many already have laws in place that would be, in essence, reactivated (so-called “trigger laws”). Some of these laws allow forcible confinement of women who _might_ have abortions. Many of these laws were written before some birth control methods were invented, and as such some birth control methods might be outlawed. This is not restricted to RU-486, an abortifacient. For example, since IUDs prevent embryo implantation, they could be outlawed too (if abortion is defined as the destruction of an embryo). As such, some states might allow only birth control that relies on variations of the barrier method (condoms, diaphrams, etc.) or the spermicidal methods. But make no mistake: [Griswold vs. Connecticut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut) is next. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/18 "2008-01-23T11:24:44Z")
**Justin\_Bailey** , [this](http://imnotsorry.net/rachelE.htm) makes you sick?Personally, I find that site empowering. Abortion shouldn’t be a shameful secret, it is the world’s commonest medical procedure. Criminalising abortion would lead to 25% of the world’s women being punished. Believing that it only happens to bad people, or stupid people, or careless people or to people who are hopelessly damaged by it makes it easier to ban. Knowing that it happens to women from all walks of life, for all sorts of reasons and that often it simply is the right choice for them makes it harder to believe all the anti-choice rhetoric. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/19 "2008-01-23T11:38:04Z")
[QUOTE=irishgirl] **Justin\_Bailey** , [this](http://imnotsorry.net/rachelE.htm) makes you sick?Personally, I find that site empowering. Abortion shouldn’t be a shameful secret, it is the world’s commonest medical procedure. Criminalising abortion would lead to 25% of the world’s women being punished. [/QUOTE] It’s interesting that you ran like a rabbit from the Great Debates thread where I called you on that. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530/20 "2008-01-23T11:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=irishgirl] **Justin\_Bailey** , [this](http://imnotsorry.net/rachelE.htm) makes you sick?Personally, I find that site empowering. [/QUOTE] I didn’t read that particularly story, and reading it now, no I don’t find that it makes me sick. But there were others on that site that were so cold, so unfeeling and a few had the sense that having an abortion was something to be _proud_ of. I just have a natural revulsion to people who speak about abortion as just another form of birth control. Abortion rights are something to be happy about, but to be happy about having an abortion just seems so abnormal to me. I’m not sure I could explain it properly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pro-choice-day/434530.md?page=2)