This is a lovely piece. You, and we all at one time, speak of the ability to choose between options to have or not to have…..but only on the back end of pregnancy, never on the front end.
It’s as if the government only owns you and your choice capacity. What ever happened to choice on the front end, where choices are more abundant, even infinite, in every aspect of our lives? What aren’t we feminists and erstwhile feminists, willing to see here? Responsibility?
Feminsts are so bold in standing up for their—now I’m no longer in the ‘our’ camp—right to choose. But it’s only because they’ve given up their choice when it really matters, before the fact, rather than after. It’s only after the fact that women call in father-figure government.
What you’re really saying is that women need the right to re-choose, because we refuse to choose on the front end.
What about so called accidents? Perhaps we can think that out in advance too? If I get pregnant when I don’t want to, I’ll give the child to adoptive parent who can better care for it. Otherwise, I’ll be much more careful.
Best wishes to you and that new baby.
