My mom was a hippie activist feminist. The sort who communed nude with nature, and bought her 6 year old shirts with that wonderful quote about fish needing a bicycle. Part of that was being very pro-choice. She firmly embraced the idea that women should be in control of their own bodies.
She explained things in extremes, because every avalanche starts with pebble, every flood starts with a drop of rain. The small things, the things you let go by because they seem like no big deal add up.
I'm pro-choice for my daughter, just like mom was pro-choice for me. We made our choices, to have our children. Now I want them to have the same choices my mother and countless other people like her made sure that I had. Choice is part of freedom, it can't be separated from a woman's basic right to pursue her own happiness and create her own destiny.
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