Anger.

[rootofnewt]

If anything, becoming a mother has only solidified my pro-choice stance. My pregnancy was planned and desired. I love my child.

But I wouldn't wish pregnancy or parenting on anyone who didn't want it. Nor would I ever want to force someone to carry a child who would most certainly die before or shortly after birth. If I had found myself at 20 weeks, facing an ultrasound of a fetus who had defects not compatible with life, I would have fought very hard to terminate the pregnancy, though I'm not sure what my options would have been in Virginia. The thought of bringing a child into the world only to make it suffer? That is cruel and heartless. If I had a daughter, I wouldn't want her to ever be in the position where she was forced to carry a pregnancy to term.

Dr. Tiller was killed by terrorists. And the gunman wasn't the only one.

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[klwalton.livejournal.com]

I can't even begin to get behind the logic of someone who thinks that, say, giving birth to an anencephalic child and watching it die slowly is somehow more "moral" than terminating the pregnancy and preventing the child from suffering.

Speaking as someone who did clinic defense for *years* (week after week after week) and got up close and personal with the anti-choice fringe? There is no logic behind it. Only the deeply-held conviction that the child's condition is God's Will, and that we have no business interfering in the process.

The anti-choice leadership on the other hand? They're all about controlling women, and are as convinced as I am that a woman who doesn't control her reproduction doesn't control her life.