Thank you, Barack, for the new ad addressing the issue of choice. There was a diary on Daily Kos earlier this week asking if those who oppose choice should be "pro-life" or "anti-choice." They are really neither; they are "forced birthers."
Forced-birthers want to legislate whether a woman has to give birth to a child, but they disappear figuratively and legislatively when it comes to caring for any child that results from that birth or for the mother/parents who is first pregnant and then the mother/parents of an infant.
They interpret morality as forcing a heart beat and respiration into the world, without regard for quality of life for the new person or the family into whose life this human being is born. But this issue is so much larger than that and I want to talk about the immorality of forcing birth on anyone without regard to the consequences.
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