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Blog For Choice Day, belated.
Apparently the 22nd of January was Blog For Choice Day and I missed it. Much ♥ to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
harmonybunny114 for informing me of it.
Of course, pretty much anyone who reads this journal already knows that I'm very definitely pro-choice. I believe that what a woman does with her body is her own business, and that nobody else, not the government or her husband, should be able to make that decision for her.
Of course, what most of you probably don't know is that I used to be anti-choice as a kid. I thought of myself as one of those babies that could have been killed, and I read Tom Clancy. I liked Tom Clancy, he of Red October fame.
Why is Tom Clancy relevant to a discussion on choice?
There's one book he read, I can't even remember the title any longer, but it was about Jack Ryan, a Marine-CIA hero, being elected the President and how he was going to overthrow Roe vs. Wade. I remember very clearly reading the discussion he had with his wife, knowing that Jack was the hero of the book and that I was expected to sympathize with him, and thinking to myself, "Wait. That's wrong."
His wife was a doctor, but she agreed anyway. That only set off more of my "That's wrong." sensors.
The more of Clancy's books I read, the more I found myself disagreeing with the way he used his books to push his political views, but the key realization I had was that first one, where I couldn't believe that his supposed hero would take away the right of women to choose.
I can't pinpoint when exactly in my teenage years I changed from empathizing with the babies to empathizing with the women. I just know that Tom Clancy, ironically enough, is the one who made me realize that my views on abortion had switched from pro-life to pro-choice.
Edit: Best list of reasons to be pro-choice ever.
harmonybunny114 for informing me of it.Of course, pretty much anyone who reads this journal already knows that I'm very definitely pro-choice. I believe that what a woman does with her body is her own business, and that nobody else, not the government or her husband, should be able to make that decision for her.
Of course, what most of you probably don't know is that I used to be anti-choice as a kid. I thought of myself as one of those babies that could have been killed, and I read Tom Clancy. I liked Tom Clancy, he of Red October fame.
Why is Tom Clancy relevant to a discussion on choice?
There's one book he read, I can't even remember the title any longer, but it was about Jack Ryan, a Marine-CIA hero, being elected the President and how he was going to overthrow Roe vs. Wade. I remember very clearly reading the discussion he had with his wife, knowing that Jack was the hero of the book and that I was expected to sympathize with him, and thinking to myself, "Wait. That's wrong."
His wife was a doctor, but she agreed anyway. That only set off more of my "That's wrong." sensors.
The more of Clancy's books I read, the more I found myself disagreeing with the way he used his books to push his political views, but the key realization I had was that first one, where I couldn't believe that his supposed hero would take away the right of women to choose.
I can't pinpoint when exactly in my teenage years I changed from empathizing with the babies to empathizing with the women. I just know that Tom Clancy, ironically enough, is the one who made me realize that my views on abortion had switched from pro-life to pro-choice.
Edit: Best list of reasons to be pro-choice ever.
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Gah. Could you please send me an email from the account you check MOST OFTEN, and I will delete all other accounts :p
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...Also, I think it's partly that I don't like creating new posts until I've replied to comments from old posts. So if I still had comments I was replying to on that day, I probably didn't want to stick up anything new but didn't realize there was a deadline involved.
*IS STUPID AND SLEEP-DEPRIVED, YES!*
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