Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Why I'm Pro Choice  I was raised to
be pro choice, literally.  My father is a medical doctor who was
trained during the pre- roe v. wade era.  He saw first hand the
effect that lack of legal and safe abortion had.  I remember him
coming home from work one day and stating how important it is
that it is legal and safe because otherwise women die.
  Remember the scene from Dirty Dancing when Penny is crying on
the bed and Baby runs to get the doctor?  My Dad was that doctor
in a rural part of Kentucky for many years.  I heard stories
about the bleeding, the hangers, and the self sterilization that
occurs when abortion is not safe and legal or even when women
are just too afraid to seek it due to the stigma. My family
is Christian and I was raised that sex before marriage was a bad
choice.  In my family you lived with your poor choices, because
choices had consequences.  Because of this much of my youth I
was personally pro-life.  But because of the teachings of my
father I was always p