Reply #16: For me, as well, the matter is one of personal [View All]

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choice.

I have always been opposed to the government being involved in what I've always considered a "personal choice" and I think it's still very much true. That's why certain issues are so volatile, like gay marriage, abortion, marijuana and such--it's because these issues are really none of the government's business. They should stay the hell out of our personal lives.

I think that's one of the things I despise the most about the radical religious right--they try to tell the rest of us how to think and live. It's just plain wrong--what I do in the sanctity of my own home is really no one's business, as long as I'm not harming anyone else. I was raised a Catholic, but as I became an adult, I realized that what I thought was totally my own, and no one should be able to take away what is my unique viewpoint on the world.

Abortion might not be something I would ever choose for myself (I'm kind of over childbearing age now anyhow!), but I can not deny anyone that fundamental right to choose for themselves. The minute our government declares that all abortion and all other methods of contraception are illegal will be the day that women are reverted back to being second class citizens.