When you think of pro-choice, what comes to mind? Abortion is the most controversial topic in America. You have people on one side (pro-lifers) who say abortion should be ban but then on the other side, you have people (pro-choice) who feel that abortion should be legal. When it comes down to it, do a woman have a choice with her own body? How can anybody take away a woman’s right to choose what to do with her own body? It took a long time for women to get the right to vote or to be treated as an equal to a man when it comes to the workplace or money but when it come to their own body, the government can decide what to do with it. There is a misconception that pro-lifers do not understand about people who are pro-choice. pro-choice does not
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It was a horrific point in my life at an age where I could not even take care of myself. I was raped by someone I was very close to but that wasn’t the only emotional scar that the person left. I had to make a choice that no one knows I made and finally I am ok to speak on it. It took me a few days to make a decision but during the time I was deciding my friends and family would get on the topic of abortion and they were not too nice about it, but they did not want any of the children to have kids at a young age also. I would sit back and be quiet because I could not say anything because I was making a decision my own self, where my family would not accept either choice I made. I had to choose before it was too late, so I made the heartbreaking decision to abort my unwanted child. There were so many thoughts that went through my head but it was a choice I had to make because the bad outweigh the good. What I mean by that is the reason I decided to abort my child was based on what would happen in the future. I would be that statistic of the black culture, being a single mother, I would be label as something I was not but I was a virgin, my family would have turn their backs on me, and also everyday if I was to give birth to a child that was conceived unwantedly, I would not even want to look at her/him in the face because it would remind of the brutal and disgusting thing that happen to me and I could not take
It was a horrific point in my life at an age where I could not even take care of myself. I was raped by someone I was very close to but that wasn’t the only emotional scar that the person left. I had to make a choice that no one knows I made and finally I am ok to speak on it. It took me a few days to make a decision but during the time I was deciding my friends and family would get on the topic of abortion and they were not too nice about it, but they did not want any of the children to have kids at a young age also. I would sit back and be quiet because I could not say anything because I was making a decision my own self, where my family would not accept either choice I made. I had to choose before it was too late, so I made the heartbreaking decision to abort my unwanted child. There were so many thoughts that went through my head but it was a choice I had to make because the bad outweigh the good. What I mean by that is the reason I decided to abort my child was based on what would happen in the future. I would be that statistic of the black culture, being a single mother, I would be label as something I was not but I was a virgin, my family would have turn their backs on me, and also everyday if I was to give birth to a child that was conceived unwantedly, I would not even want to look at her/him in the face because it would remind of the brutal and disgusting thing that happen to me and I could not take