Roe v Wade Overturned: Going Back in Time to When Women Do Not Have Choices

For a country that prides itself on being developed, we've now taken a step back in time to when women have no rights. Roe v Wade has been overturned, which gives women a right to protected access to abortion. From all the fights for Women's Rights during the Suffrage movement to making our way into high-end career industries, we have now just been denied the right to make choices about what to do with our bodies.

Abortion is not something I personally support, but that is my choice. Every single woman in this country deserves to have the right to choose what to do with their body. It's their body, their pain, their sweat and tears, and their blood that go into giving birth to a child. No man can ever understand the pain these women go through when they go into labor. They do not understand the changes their bodies go through as they grow that life. So why do we give them the right to choose what women do with their bodies? Once a child is born, we give that child their father's name, even though women spend 9 months growing that child in their wombs. When women are married, they take their spouses' names, when a child is born, they take their fathers' names. But it is women who make the most effort in the relationship in both cases. Yet, women never try to force anything on either party. So why are women not given the right to choose what they do with their bodies?

No man is able to understand the toll pregnancy can take. Now imagine a forced pregnancy because we no longer give women the right to have access to abortion or any other preventative measures for pregnancy. That will not only cause an immense resentment to develop within the mother for the child, but it can also lead to a child being abused and neglected. How is that pro-life? Pregnancy is one of the largest emotional rollercoasters a woman goes through, even after the pregnancy itself is complete. So why is it that we assume that pregnancy only gives happiness to a woman?

What about when a child receives a terminal diagnosis while still in the mother's womb? Should we put the mother through that torment of giving birth only to watch their child die? Is that fair? Is that pro-life or pro-birth?

You know it’s easy to say you’re pro-life without thinking about that life in long-term. We now live in a world where women have no rights to their bodies in one of the most powerful countries of today’s worlds. I’m not surprised, I’m not shocked. I’m disappointed. Disappointed in a country that prides itself in being “developed” has made so many steps backwards back into the 19th century with its politics. We need to speak up if we are going to make this world a better place for the next generation of young women. Do you want them to live in a world where they have no rights to decide to what to do with their own bodies?