It’s that time of year again! (You know, when I bug you to blog about choice issues, duh.)
On January 22nd - the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade – NARAL Pro-Choice America is asking pro-choice bloggers to raise the profile of reproductive rights issues in the blogosphere and the media, and to let everyone know that a woman's right to choose is nonnegotiable.
So blog for choice on January 22nd, and this year's topic is a simple one: tell us, and your readers, why you're pro-choice.
You can sign up for Blog for Choice Day here and download a Blog for Choice Day sidebar graphic (to let your readers know that you're participating) here.
When you sign up to Blog for Choice, NARAL will send you a reminder, and link to your post on BushvChoice. (You can also tag your posts with "Blog for Choice" to show you're joining in.)
And of course, if you're not a blog or a website, please encourage (translation: bug) your favorite sites to take part in Blog for Choice Day!
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Thanks for letting me know about this!
The title of my blog for choice last year was "Why I'm Pro-Choice," so this could be tricky. Hmmm...
Cheers,
TH
Cool idea. I'm spreading the word.
@Tom Head: Maybe your post this year could be "Why I'm Still Pro-Choice"...
Thanks for the info and I'm passing it on!
I'll try writing something about it. The main stumbling block is that I've always considered abortion just another medical procedure cum birth control, just like I've always considered evolution a scientific fact.
Alon - there's your first line right there then!
Tom Head,
If you're feeling all intellectual, perhaps you could go with the abstract: blog not only why you ARE pro-choice, but why anyone should or could be pro-choice, despite the usual suspects (religion, thinking abortion ends a human life, being pro-abstinence, etc) - a sort of rebuttal to those who assume that anyone who holds a religious or ethical position must accept the pro-life standpoint.
There aren't enough thoughtful male voices in the pro-life/pro-choice discussion. (There are a plethora of men who love abortion because they can get a woman pregnant but not have the consequences - trust me, I've dated a zillion of these guys - and there's the "God said life" group.) Please continue to add your voice, and not just in a repetition of that which you have already stated.
I'll do it! I'm at Mind on Fire.