Please everyone, stop using terms like "anti-abortion"

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7. I'm not ashamed to say I support a woman's right to receive a medical abortion

That I am "for" abortion access for anyone for any reason.

I think we cave to them when we use euphemisms like "choice," pretending that we think abortion is a dirty word and a shameful thing. It's not.

Of course no one wants to have an abortion if they can avoid it. But sometimes it is a necessary and totally respectable choice--and NOT just in the case of rape or incest.

I was fortunate never to have needed to have an abortion. But there was a period of my life, when I had been married for some time and had two young children--one with a disability and another who was a handful--and not a lot of money or energy left over, that I knew that if I were to become pregnant again that I would need to seek an abortion. It was out of love and duty to my two existing children (and for my own sanity) that I knew I could not have another child at the time. Or at least so I felt: I never had to test that feeling. But I didn't feel ashamed of making that mental decision at all. And I felt safe knowing that option was available to me.

I am definitely FOR the right to have an abortion.