Pro-Choice is NOT about Pro-Abortion

Let's hit the ground running with one of the most controversial women's rights topic: Abortion.

When I was young, I was a pro-lifer. My long-time friends can confirm this. I couldn't fathom the idea of aborting something that would eventually become your child. It wasn't something I would do, so why would someone else do it. However, as with most intelligent people, I learned and grew from this notion.

In the years that preceded my initial mindset, I have seen and heard women go through this hard decision. I have seen 19-year-old college women whose condoms broke during sex come to the realization that they were too young to start a family. I have heard mothers who got pregnant 10 years after their youngest child decide not to uproot the lives of their current children. I have also heard women who talked about abortion as if it was a cure for promiscuity, women who are mothers today I might add.

All of this made me realize that it was no one's choice but the woman going through it to decide what to do with her own body and life. While my viewpoint remained the same about me, I didn't have the right to push that viewpoint onto these women. That is what abortion rights is about.

It's not about supporting abortion on its own; it's about supporting the rights of women to choose for themselves whether abortion is for them or not, regardless of how you feel about it for yourself.

No one has the right to tell anyone what to do with their own body, whether it is abortion, clothing, or tattoos.

Pro-Choice is about Pro-Bodily Autonomy.