by Brenda Bowers

Created on: May 27, 2007   Last Updated: September 30, 2008

I believe a woman should have the right to choose abortion rather than give birth to her child. I am one of the early members of NOW (National Organization for Women) so you understand my concern for women's rights. I do not however necessarily believe nor defend the usual reason for a woman's right to an abortion, i.e. it is her body and she has a right to do as she pleases with it. No, I do not believe this to be true in the case of a pregnancy. You see, when a woman engages in sex with a man it is a mutual agreement and acknowledgement that a child may be created by both of them, and they are both therefore responsible for this child. So in the case of pregnancy the woman has offered her body as a nursery for the child belonging to both she the mother and the man/father. In that case she only has a right to an abortion if the man agrees. She was not alone in getting pregnant and I believe she can not morally and ethically make the decision to end the pregnancy alone. This is the unspoken agreement made between a male and a female when they agree to the act of possible creation. That said I will get to my personal reasons for understanding the need for abortion and a woman's right to be have the procedure legally and safely made available to her.

I personally hate abortion. The only thing I hate more is seeing an unwanted and unloved child brought into this mean world. Much better I believe to choose abortion and send those dear souls back to God until they find parents who will love them. If those who are so vehemently in opposition to abortion would put their heart where their hateful mouths are they would adopt one of those unwanted and unloved children who were not aborted, but allowed to be born and then abandoned.

Our foster care programs are overflowing with these children. Unwanted from the beginning and unwanted thru out their life in far too many cases. Most state foster care programs discharge a child on their 18th. birthday no matter what time of year this birthday falls on. So some foster children after being shuttled from home to home most of their lives and never staying long enough to form a bond of love with a foster parent, or anyone else, often find themselves out on the street without even a high school diploma. There have been cases of tossed out foster children living on the streets and yet continuing to go to school. Recently the news papers reported on a young man who finished his senior year in high school by actually living in the

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