Feminist rights and a little bit of ranting

When did 'feminist rights' become synonomous with 'right to have an abortion'? Am I missing something here? I know that I did not grow up in the Roe v. Wade era. Many women have told me that I cna't understand what the women in those times fought for, and what it meant to get the decision that Roe v. Wade did.

But let me tell you something.

I didn't ask you to fight for me on that. I didn't ask you to make it okay for me to kill my unborn child. I didn't ask it and I didn't want it. So, thank you for fighting for my right to vote, earn a good wage and not have to put up with sexual harrassment and biases in the workplace. But I never asked you to fight for my right to kill my child, and I will not thank you for that.

Because, as I see it, it is not my right. It is not my right because it is NOT my body. It is happening in my own body. But it is not the right of my body. The right of my body was to have sex or not to have sex. The right to choose an action that has two different outcomes - pregnant or not pregnant. We all know you can get pregnant by having sex. If I choose to have sex, that is my right. That is the right I have by using my body as I want to.

I do NOT have the right to abort a child because it is inconvenient/a distraction/not intended/an accident/thought I was ok or any of the other hundreds of reasons that are thrown around.

You would not think it was right for a woman to kill her baby after she gave birth to it. Remember the mother in 2000 that was sentenced to prison after killing her newborn baby in a microwave? We all agree that that is not right. So what makes it ok to kill the child before it is born, but not after? The baby was only a month old. It had - according to some - no personality outside of its need to sleep, poop and eat. But it is still wrong. What makes it right to take the life of a child at all, outside or inside your body?

Lately I have been reading alot of editorial comments in different newspapers regarding Sarah Palin. Many of the comments say that she will set the women's movement back dozens of years by trying to ban abortion. They say that she is the opposite of what a woman should be; she's a woman who lives and plays only in a man's world: hunting, playing with guns, a politician and a pro-lifer. I say that she is my kind of woman. She doesn't appeal just to the hunting/gatherer men. She appeals to me, also. Women who don't need the right to have an abortion to feel like a feminist. Women who think that if you don't want to have a baby, then don't have sex.

I don't know yet if I will vote for her. I don't have enough information on any of the candidates yet to make an informed decision. And I probably won't share how I vote with you. But I do know that on this topic, I cannot agree with Sarah Palin more.

From the website www.ontheissues.org:

Palin said last month that no woman should have to choose between her career, education and her child. She is pro-contraception and said she's a member of a pro-woman but anti-abortion group called Feminists for Life. "I believe in the strength and the power of women, and the potential of every human life," she said.

Amen, sister. Amen.