Although for most of his political career
Dennis Kucinich voted Pro-life, his conversations with many
women have tempered that stance and now he is considered a
"Pro-choice" candidate. No one forces anyone to
have an abortion, but if someone is having one, he feels it
is better to not risk death in the process.
Would making abortions illegal again make
them go away? Did women have abortions when they were illegal?
Of course they did! And even with President Bush who brags
about being Pro-life, the abortion laws are still on the books,
so why vote for President Bush again, a man whose love for
war and capital punishment shows that he doesn't even respect
lives that are already born?
When I was a young woman, abortions were
illegal. I remember standing up to two weddings, two Catholic
weddings, by the way, and both brides had had abortions of
the babies that they conceived with their fiances. Even without
Roe V. Wade these abortions there were abortions.
The world is different now. Walking down
the wedding aisle pregnant is not such a scandal anymore,
but some women have abortions for other reasons too-- not
because of shame, but because they can't afford another child.
With Kucinich as president, the financial
burdens of having a child would be lessened. To give women
less reason to have abortions would help women have a real
"choice" to choose life, but there are no guarantees
that abortions will go away if they become illegal.
Dennis Kucinich is not pro-abortion,
and his "pro-choice" stance is tempered with his
desire to make abortions unnecessary in a world that is more
fair to everyone- economically, socially and financially. |
