I'm reading various court cases regarding civil liberties for my Ameican Government class. I got to 1973 and had to take a break. My text book has pictures of women asking for the right to choose. their body their rights. these women are smiling and screaming for this right. their arms and posters flung into the air in loud protest. and i find my mind straying from the decision in Roe V. Wade.

These smiling women asking for the right to choose. have they thought about what happens after that decision is made? pretend for a second that I can persuade myself that i don't think a baby is alive at conception. that i'm justified in my selfishness to kill the "fetus" living inside me. will i still have that same opinion of selfishness 16 years from now? When i see a high school football game? Will i still have that same opinion in 5 years when i drive past an elementary school with kids all over the playground? Where then will all my friends with the smiles and posters be? Where are the megaphones and stickers and t-shirts saying that I'm justified? Where are all the other women who so many years ago were supporting me and telling me it was okay? They were smiling and so passionate then.

I thought i was passionate about abortion before i was pregnant. i read that God breathed life in me in my mother's womb, and i believed it. However, now that i have carried a life i am responsible for a small life, i have friends who have struggled so hard to conceive and i have seen how precious it is to have that life in my stomach. i find myself so close to tears every time i read about people fighting for a woman's right to choose.

I understand the first amendment. i know the massive role it has played in our society, and i am grateful for it. however, there are some things that i believe the Supreme court has gotten so wrong.

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