Convince me I should continue to support a woman's right to choose. [View All]

[Sapphocrat]

Below is a post I made in another thread. It received no replies, which I believe it deserves.

Without explanation of context, I present it here in its original form:

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Countless Obama supporters keep telling me that the issue dictating the very quality of my entire life -- LGBT equality -- doesn't matter in the "big picture," and that what I know to be the truth is wrong / stupid / selfish / etc.

Here's the deal: If so many others did not vote for any of the three candidates -- Kucinich, Gravel, or Richardson -- who would have worked to give me first-class citizenship, that's far better evidence than any DU poll (or any endless arguments about McClurkin, Kirbyjon Caldwell, the Newsom snub, etc.) that most Democratic voters either don't recognize the importance of a human-rights issue in their own backyard -- or do, and really, truly don't give a damn.

Now, I ask you: Why should I continue to worry about your right to a safe and legal abortion? I mean, I'm a woman too, but I don't want children, and, as a lesbian, I'm not about to get knocked up through carelessness. Plus, as I am nearing menopause, the possibility that rape could result in an unwanted pregnancy gets more remote every year. As you can see, Roe v. Wade certainly doesn't have any direct impact on my life.

Since I've marched, rallied, written letters, blogged, and voted in support of a woman's right to choose consistently for the past +/- 30 years, yet have never received the same consideration from the majority of my fellow females when it's crunch time and my rights are at stake, why should I care about your right to choose anymore?

Go ahead, convince me I should go on defending your right to choose, when the vast majority of you have never worked to get me my rights in the first place, much less have to defend them.