Pro-choice is not synonymous with pro-abortion. The world would certainly be a better place if there were no need for abortion. Unfortunately, there is. A woman can choose to have an abortion for any reason, and that reason is nobody’s business but her own. It is her body and she should have the right to what she wants with it. Women who cannot give their children the lives they deserve should not be having children. If adoption is the course they choose, then it is perfectly within their prerogative to do so. But the fact remains that more women regret giving up their children for adoption than regret aborting fetuses.
Outside my school, an anti-abortion group stages an annual protest sporting massive billboards of aborted fetuses and likening abortion to the Holocaust. The Holocaust was about annihilating rights and forcing people into deathly situations. Abortion, in direct contrast, is about granting rights. We cannot live in a country in which women are denied control over their bodies because they had sex.
We are lucky that abortion is legal today. Once upon a time—in fact, just a few decades ago—women had to seek abortions through other, extremely dangerous means. If we value lives so much, we should not be putting women in such situations, in which they must resort to unsafe, and often lethal means of abortion, at the hands of non-professionals. If we believe that all life is precious, then shouldn’t women have access to safe treatment? Until the necessity of abortion disappears, women need to have access to them.