ProChoice.com is not so "Pro-Choice"

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A website under the name ProChoice.com is, naturally, not really prochoice at all. However, they insist on making such claims by saying,

This Site is dedicated to all the women that were told they had a choice, but never had it explained to them that there is more than one.

If there are people in the world that truly do not recognize the choices they have in front of them, then that is shameful. But this prochoice.com is not the site that will give accurate information.

This site, ultimately, is prolife, and like so many prolife things it will try to guilt one and scare one into not getting an abortion. It exaggerates the dangers and accentuates how “wrong” abortion is. Basically, this is the online equivalent of those crazies who stand outside abortion clinics and judge those who choose to enter the facility.

In one area of this website, it reads:

Realize that when those who say they support women and 'their right to choose' are not really doing that.

The dirty little secret is that Abortion providers are interested in their bottom line YOUR MONEY.

This is NOT true. The dominant majority who support a woman’s right to choose are individual women (like myself) who simply believe that, if it came down to having to make such a decision, I would want options.

What it comes down to is this: Do you want to be able to choose for yourself or have your decision made for you?

Why We Have the Right to Choose

Many people, when they hear “pro-choice,” immediately think of abortion. They see those fighting for these rights as savages who simply want to “kill fetuses.” I am here to clear things up and say that this is not the case.

Nobody wants an abortion. The people who believe that need to open their minds and just try to understand. Then they’ll get it. Abortion is not pretty. But, sometimes, it is unfortunately necessary.

It can protect a woman’s life or livelihood. One woman wrote on Tumblr of how she would not have been able to continue school if she had been pregnant – and that includes if she had planned to have the child adopted. Simply by being pregnant, she would have lost her scholarship, and thus would not have been able to afford to continue school.

Some could claim that she should not have made such a mistake, but such things happen sometimes even with every precaution. Also, she is human. We as a species are prone to mistakes. Should someone’s life be altered for one faulty moment?

Now, she could have decided to keep the child, which would have been fine. The important thing is that she had the choice. She had a right to choose if she was ready for motherhood.

Imagine if she did not have that right. She would have lost her education, would have struggled for work and would have added to the lower class that we as a nation are trying to lift. Now, imagine this on a large scale – imagine no one had the right to choose. This girl would not be the only one who could not finish her education. Graduation rates would decrease, and the lower class would increase in size. More single-parent homes – surely something pro-life supporters would dislike – would increase.

If a woman wants a child and is ready to raise the child, we support that fully. But she should have a choice for herself of what she does with her body and her time. 

The Juno Scenario

When this movie was released, some people liked to point to it as an example of pro-life. One blog argues that it is pro-life, saying:

It open up the possibility that there is good adoption parents out there, even if they do have mistakes and get divorced and are somewhat weird.

While, yes, this is true. But there is a beautiful scene early on where she goes to an abortion clinic. After arriving there, she changes her mind and opts to give the baby up for adoption instead. This is an example of exactly what being pro-choice is about.  She is the one who chooses to have the child. She is the one who decides to go the adoption route. We who are pro-choice completely support this as well - so long as its her choice, and not the choice of unconnected parties.
A second, more concise and pleasant article from the New York Post agrees with me. It reads:

[Juno's parents] would have also strongly supported Juno if she decided to go ahead with "the alternative,'' as Juno's stepmom puts it. Pro-choice means a woman is free to choose not to terminate a pregnancy as well to choose to have an abortion. I also applaud "Juno'' for making clear that there are emotional consequences of giving a child up for adoption, just as there are consequences of having an abortion.

This article hits the nail right on the head. This movie makes it clear why there is a choice, and that adoption is not an easy answer to a difficult problem. Abortion may not be easy, either, but that's what makes the whole situation a challenge.

Juno is a great movie. Not only is it funny and full of heart, but it is a perfect example of why we fight for a right to choose. We do not want abortion nor adoption forced on anyone. It's a choice, like, in the film, it was Juno's choice.

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