Bumper Sticker: "Smile, your mother was pro-life." Actually...

[Kerrytravelers]

No. My mother is pro-choice., She CHOSE to have me.

Saw this on a pick-up driving down the S 110 through Downtown LA. Idiot. And taking a look at this maniac, he looked like the kind of guy who would blow up a clinic.

[mzmolly]

1. Oooooooooooh, I like your reply.

;)

[Solly Mack]

2. Exactly!

As my mother had 3 abortions before me ...

I tend to think she made the choice to continue the pregnancy that resulted in my birth.

I'm just saying... I gotta go with "choice" here.

[DanCa]

3. Saw one of these yesterday at circut city.

Big ole blue van with two support the troops stickers on it. You know what the woman got rear ended by a white pick up truck because she was combing her hair instead of watching her surroundings.

[WildClarySage]

4. Isn't it amazing how these right wingers have met our parents?

Especially since I live 450 miles away from my mother, and yet a guy in a van I saw yesterday has apparently met her and spoke at length with her about her reproductive philosophies!

Except, of course, he couldn't have. She is the one who taught me that a woman's body is hers and that abortion is sometimes necessary. And that's a value I'm teaching my children. So that when THEY see that guy's bumper sticker, they know that they were chosen- not simply accidents allowed to happen. And since they know they were chosen, they know they are valued and loved.

[HockeyMom]

5. Stole my line

I actually thought of making up a bumper sticker saying that. "I am am mother by CHOICE - Nobody FORCED it upon me." I choose to have none BEFORE my two nor none AFTER.

No, Fundies, there were no little OOPS. We made SURE of that.

[Ally McLesbian]

6. Proof that

Los Angeles is too damn Catholic - the reason it's not San Francisco.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. No, we're not San Francisco (grew up in the Bay Area)

But thank God we're still BLUE!

That idiot could have been from anywhere, not necessarily LA. I'm Catholic and pro-choice... we're not all lock and step with the idiot Pope. Believe me.

[Ally McLesbian]

8. Good for you...

However, much of Los Angeles County, and all neighboring counties, are RED :(

I live in the reddest part of LA County.

[bliss_eternal]

9. What is with the battle over language?!

It's really pissing me off!!! People on this very board, claiming to be progressive, yet insisting 'nastily' that we, as pro-choicers call ourselves pro-abortionists or anti-lifers???

I thought this was a progressive board!

:wtf:

[Maat]

10. I think I saw what you are referring to.

My philosophy is that those that consider themselves anti-reproductive-choice, or anti-abortion, will not find too many friends on this Board.

I'm as pro-choice as they come!!! And, no, I'm not 'pro-abortion.' I emphasize the word, 'CHOICE.' It should be a conscious, well-informed, well-thought-out choice to carry that pregnancy to term. Since the 70's, I've believed that every child should be a loved, wanted child.

[bliss_eternal]

11. Hi Maat--

So good to see you! :hi: Thanks for validating my experience. I briefly thought maybe *I* was going nuts, that DU's demographics had changed and I had somehow missed it. LOL! Given the amount of people that jumped in later with comments, I guess you are right. (In that they won't find too many friends on this board)...

I too believe every child should be a loved, wanted child.

I've also seen the other side of children born to addicts--very scary, heartbreaking stuff--those babes go through absolute hell.

[Maat]

12. Hi! You ARE correct.

Yes, people jumped in and advocated for the 'pro-choice' term!

Restored my faith in DUers!

:hi:

[bliss_eternal]

13. Mine too!

I was pretty disheartened earlier when it happened...though, admittedly there were a couple to trickle in. But MUCH better now! LOL!

I know we all have the right to be here, as long as we are all Dems, but I don't get how or why one with that opinion would WANT to exist here. To each his/her own of course. Just seems a HUGE contradiction in terms...

[Kerrytravelers]

16. I had to double check my op to be sure you weren't mad at me!

Whew! I know. THe battle over language can get silly. Pro-choice means just that- you are in favor of staying out of people's private business and taking care of your own damn self.

[Warpy]

17. Right wingers, especially anti choicers, are basically bullies

who want to define everything that other people think and do and say.

Pity them. Just don't let them label you or me or anyone else but themselves. Point out the false advertising they choose for themselves--they are assuredly NOT pro life because they are hostile to the already born.

I'm done with bullies. Anyone who pushes me is going to be pushed back. Hard.

[musical_soul]

19. Agreed.

If you don't like the term pro-choice, that's okay. Don't call us pro-abortion or anti-life though if you're a progressive. That just sucks.

[Spankydem]

14. Errrrr...wrong. My mother was pro-choice.,

the wingnuts dont give a shit about the child after its born.

Then youre on your own.

[MountainLaurel]

15. Welcome to DU, Spanky!

:hi:

[LiberalPartisan]

27. They don't care about the child period

They are only concerned with compelling a woman for give birth. Birth is a form of punishment to these twisted bastards!!

[musical_soul]

18. Me too.

My mom talks about how she just decided she wanted another baby. She's for choice. People should not assume.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. mymother is pro life and pro choice....not antichoice

[demigoddess]

21. mine wasn't either, she told me many times, that she never

wanted to have any children if it had been a choice. After having two children my sister said the same thing.

[HockeyMom]

22. My Aunt was a grandmother

when she had an abortion. Had one grown up daughter and didn't want to have a newborn child and a 2 year old grandson when she was 45 years old and her husband was 50.

Maybe she should have practiced "Abstinence Only" IN Marriage? ROFL

[Iris]

23. oh, my. That sure goes against their sacred motherhood beliefs!

That's what really gets my goat. The idea that every woman wants or should be a mother. Any woman who dares go against this presumption is suspect to them.

[iamjoy]

24. Choice Empowers Women

a touching story I heard a few months ago was at a Planned Parenthood gathering. A young woman had become pregnant, agonized for a while and then decided to CARRY THE BABY TO TERM and GIVE IT UP FOR ADOPTION. And she said how comforted and empowered she felt to know she made that CHOICE and had other options.

[Kerrytravelers]

25. Thank you! It's all about personal choice.

No one is saying anyone has to get an abortion. But we're also not saying you have to carry it to term and viable either. Well said. Choice. That word seems to really confuse "pro-birthers." :eyes:

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. Good way of saying it.

I am the poster child for choice.

I had an abortion in 1994. I had JUST gotten my butt back to school and was working full time AND going to school full time. If I'd had a kid, I would have had to drop out, and would never have finished. I'd probably be on welfare right now.

In '97 I got pregnant again when I was almost finished, and decided to keep the baby. My mom said she'd move in and help me care for the baby, and I settled in and began planning for a new addition. I had a miscarriage. Which turned out to be a good thing.

But it was MY CHOICE how I lived my life, and that has made all the difference to finally having a career and a husband I love, and choosing to be childfree in our marriage.

[Iris]

28. How do they know?

Maybe she was pro-choice but couldn't get a legal abortion.

[Control-Z]

29. I am, as was my mother, pro-choice

and pro-life. I resent the antis for assuming they know my mother or me and I resent the hell out of them for making the terms pro-choice and pro-life antonymous. I can't think of anything more pro-life than giving a woman the freedom to choose what is best for her and providing her the safe means to carry out that choice.