Becoming Pro-Choice

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

When did you all become pro-choice? Have you always been pro-choice, or were you on the other side before you became pro-choice? If you were pro-life originally, what made you decide to become pro-choice?

First of all, I know I already asked something similar in the previous thread with the survey (i.e "How long have you been pro-choice?"). However, this thread gives you more room to expand on your answers compare to the survey (in my opinion, at least). Second of all, I got inspired to make this thread from another pro-choice community :)

Comments

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

While I never seen the term before, I love your term conceptus.

[seize.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that is apparently the medical way to refer to anything from a fertilized egg (zygote) to a neonate (newborn) appropriately, regardless of the many stages between the two. Ultimately, it conveys what's so desperately important about pregnancy: that what a pregnancy is, is defined by the woman carrying the pregnancy. To lose a planned pregnancy is a terrible, difficult thing for one woman; an abortion, for another woman, is the relief at the end of a terrifying few weeks.

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

Since I began to frequent the Yahoo Abortion Chatroom, I always see the term zef (which is short for zygote/embroyo/fetus). However, we rarely talk about abortion anymore since the regs know where we all stand on the issue since many of us have come there for years.

I agree with everything else you said.