
by
Suzanne Reisman at 6:44am Thu, 24 Jan 2008 under
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roe v. wade,
Blog for Choice Day
Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled that women are people who have the right, under the rubric of privacy, to decide whether or not we will give birth if we find ourselves pregnant. Ever since the ruling, opponents of women’s self-determination (i.e. – those who champion the rights of a fetus over those of the actual born and living) have worked tirelessly to revoke this right. They’ve been doing an excellent job with campaigns full of misinformation (for the record, fingernails do not develop until the 12th week of gestation, according to the Mayo clinic, and about 90% of abortions take place before that stage…), intimidation (not very life-affirming to stalk the children of doctors who perform abortions), and outright murder, so for the last few years, NARAL has asked bloggers to use the anniversary of Roe to set the record straight on why they are pro-choice.