tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post113806375953951128..comments2023-09-20T11:39:52.182-04:00Comments on Crunchy Granola: Things Can Change: Blogging for Choicesusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000470374101306070noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138506856304060422006-01-28T22:54:00.000-05:002006-01-28T22:54:00.000-05:00Amazing post, Susan. I am always surprised to loo...Amazing post, Susan. I am always surprised to look back on how my views have changed.<BR/><BR/>I'm so sorry you came to the realization of being raped (and that it happened, of course), what a terrible memory. I hope that everyone can understand for reasons like those, why we have to keep abortion legal. Hugs.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138309994697094822006-01-26T16:13:00.000-05:002006-01-26T16:13:00.000-05:00I've always been pro-choice, though I can't rememb...I've always been pro-choice, though I can't remember why,as a teenager, I automatically took that position. I had an abortion myself when I was 19, and I am so grateful to have been able to make that choice.<BR/><BR/>Had abortion been legal in 1967, and again in 1969, my mother would probably have aborted both my sister and I, as we were unplanned, un-wanted pregnancies. However, this knowledge has no bearing on my views. My mother's life would definitely have been very different, had she been able to abort us. Would it have been better? Maybe. Maybe not. But she should have had the choice.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138301970399368452006-01-26T13:59:00.000-05:002006-01-26T13:59:00.000-05:00My mom is personally pro-life and politically pro-...My mom is personally pro-life and politically pro-choice; she had a little girl before me who she gave up for adoption. I very much honour her choice and she did it with a lot of love. She felt like she had the resources.<BR/>I went through a pro-life period at 14 or so, for vaguely environmental reasons - I was suddenly sick of waste, or throwing things away, or something. I don't utterly follow my own thoughts at that time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138214006003799542006-01-25T13:33:00.000-05:002006-01-25T13:33:00.000-05:00I have always been pro-choice, and still am. But ...I have always been pro-choice, and still am. But I have to say that as a future adoptive parent, I find it a very strange and ironic situation to now potentially be the beneficiary of someone who may well be pro-life. In fact, since we are planning on adopting domestically, I wonder sometimes if our pro-choice, not-too-religious views may work against us in the selection process. However, as always, I come back to the same issue -- whether a woman decides to have an abortion, parent her child, or make an adoption plan, she has made her own decision about her life and her future. This is something I have always wanted for myself, and has always been the core of my pro-choice feelings. So, even as I wait and hope for someone to come along who has decided not to have an abortion, I believe steadfastly in her right to make that decision for herself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138159248724106202006-01-24T22:20:00.000-05:002006-01-24T22:20:00.000-05:00I'm glad you've commented, one and all: I sometime...I'm glad you've commented, one and all: I sometimes feel embarassed when I think through some of the changes in my politics over time. I'm happy to say--as I did in my numbered posts--that I've been a feminist from the get-go, but some of these other issues were just so naively articulated by my younger self. Live and learn, I guess.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000470374101306070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138158729903746712006-01-24T22:12:00.000-05:002006-01-24T22:12:00.000-05:00Thank you for writing this post.Thank you for writing this post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138118923073752502006-01-24T11:08:00.000-05:002006-01-24T11:08:00.000-05:00Thanks for telling your story, Susan. It's so cri...Thanks for telling your story, Susan. It's so critically important to remember, in this debate, that rape is not something outside the experience of most women. It's not a side issue. It's bedrock.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138108957574859582006-01-24T08:22:00.000-05:002006-01-24T08:22:00.000-05:00Thanks for sharing all this. My views too have sh...Thanks for sharing all this. My views too have shifted and morphed on many topics as I've gotten older.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138072675391552762006-01-23T22:17:00.000-05:002006-01-23T22:17:00.000-05:00Thanks for sharing your story and how it shaped yo...Thanks for sharing your story and how it shaped your views. I think many of us were conservative in the early 1980s on this issue.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962422.post-1138070062914026322006-01-23T21:34:00.000-05:002006-01-23T21:34:00.000-05:00This was a really great post. It's interesting to...This was a really great post. It's interesting to see how someone's political views can morph over time. Some of mine certainly have.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.com