Show I Its It's MY Choice Michelle Palmer Contributing Writer Americans residents in the Land of the Free a country where people have havethe havethe havethe the right to speak freely carry firearms and vote are threatening the right for women to choose freely about their own bodies When the Republican Party places the issue of abortion on the ballot saying that we should condemn it that women dont don't have the right to choose but rather that its it's murder we take a little more personal rights away from women In a world where we fight for others' others freedoms but try and take more and more of Americans American's freedoms away those of us who bel believe eve in Pro-Choice Pro and women's rights are fewer and further between Pro-Life Pro advocates are trying to get the government to overturn Roe v. v Wade However with peoples people's arguments against abortion the decision is on the chopping block Should abortion be legal Should a fetus enjoy the same rights as asa asa asa a fully developed human being When does life actually begin These are pressing questions in which there are infinite opinions to answer them I have always been based on how I was raised Pro- Pro Choice Its It's MY body who is the government to tell me what I can or cant can't do with it Should the government have any say sayin sayin sayin in it at all Shouldn't it be a personal choice Not according to the Pro-Lifers Pro among us who debate that thata a fetus should be able to exercise the same rights as the mother the father and the rest of the birthed public A fetus should have rights upon being born bom At Atthe Atthe Atthe the time the fetus leaves the womb it t should have all the rights that you Before that the mother whose body is the one that thatis is carrying and protecting the fetus should be able to decide the outcome Maybe to some that seems harsh but when a mother mak makes s that choice for the most part she hasn't made it lightly There may be comp complications Sher her er health or the health of the fetus was in jeopardy Perhaps the mother is just unfit to take care of such sucha a huge responsibility financially mentally or physically Sure in all cases there are people looking for the easy way out Still should that be their position on th the matter its it's still their body their choice In a Today Show interview Meghan McCain spoke about a question she asked her father Senator John McCain She asked him when she was 15 if she got pregnant would he allow her to get an abortion He answered It would be a family decision but in the end Meghan would have the right to choose Perhaps I am mistaken here Senator but if abortion is abolished the choice will no longer be there for Meghan or any other daughter to make will it Note Globe readers are invited to participate in inan inan an all online line poll on abortion at com and andare andare are encouraged to write a letter to the editor in response to Ms Als Palmers Palmer op-ed op or even write one of oJ their own Either may nay be sent to campus globe or log Oll on onto onto to I |