Opinion Letter

I was up at the coffee-shop today smoking a cigarette when I made the poor choice of opening up the Kansas City Star's opinion section to the letters from readers section. Between the caffeine, nicotine, and sheer anger I felt after reading an article refering to pro-choice believers as being pro-death, I felt it necessary to write this up. It was longer (and better I think) before I tried and failed to get it down to 150 words or less, but it's been almost 7 months since I made a post...or wrote anything for that matter, so I figured I'd put it up on here:

Pro-death? I stand firmly in my belief that death is the best thing since sliced bread. Everyone should try it at least once. Or how about you call me pro-abortion; I think everyone should have at least one. At this point, the pro-life use of ideal-twisting slanderously misleading names for the pro-choice faction has become an appallingly accepted fact of life in Kansas.

The fact is pro-choice has nothing to do with death-wishes, murder, or even the acceptance of abortion. It is the recognition that no matter what your beliefs, backed by Biblical excerpts “proving” the creation of life at the moment of conception, they are a mute point. If you are horrified by abortion, don't do it. Tell your friends and relatives not to do it. Write a letter to your local paper's opinion section saying you don't agree with it. But do not think that your non-acceptance of abortion gives you the right to pass judgment on others. We are pro-choice, no more and no less. We will continue to defend womens' rights to make their own decisions concerning pregnancy and abortion.

I do not refer to pro-lifers as being anti-choice, anti-women, or anti-freedom. To do so would be admittance of my own inability to articulately oppose them. If the pro-life movement ever chooses to drop the petty name calling, they may one day have to explain what it is about choice that scares them so much.

Oh and by the way, I'm 21 now!