so, i was driving home from work yesterday; it was beautiful out, sunny, perfect temperature, nothing to complain about. when i got onto brook street from waterman, someone pulled in front of me. no big, that's cool, it's a nice day, i can let stuff like that go. then i spied the offending volvo's bumper sticker:



are you serious? now, to answer your burning question: no, i am not catholic. but i find this sentiment deeply offensive. first of all, i'm sorry, who are you to tell me what i can and cannot be? neither of those beliefs are mutually exclusive, last time i checked. you can be a catholic and a Satan worshiper, so long as nobody from either group finds out, don't you think? (i know this is an argument that possibly just barely holds water, but come on. funny idea, at least, right?)

as a woman and a liberal (though not terribly political, but at least fairly outspoken on what i believe to be right), i have such a problem with the term "pro-abortion." does that movement actually exist? (edit: evidently there was/is a "pro-abortion" movement in existence, but, to the best of my understanding, it was pushing the existence of abortion clinics in places where there weren't any. there are also websites out there claiming that "pro-abortion is pro-life; anti-abortion is anti-life," but i haven't really looked into that one.) pro-lifers are certainly justified in having their ideals as they may, but i think most lack the understanding that "pro-choice" doesn't mean "pro-abortion." it is, as a matter of fact, easy to be "pro-choice" and "anti-abortion." "pro-choice" refers only to there BEING a choice, there. and i'd like to point out, too, that if the choice wasn't there in safe, medical facilities, there is a VERY good chance that abortions would still happen (gasp!), just not in a sanitary environment, preformed by trained professionals.

i'm not saying "abortions for everybody!" by any means. i am saying, shut your trap already. as a pro-choicer who feels pretty anit-abortion, i can tell you straight up: you have NO idea what your first instincts would be if you found out you/your girlfriend/daughter/whoever were pregnant. no idea at all.

/rant

as a final note, i challenge anybody to use the words "pro-abortion" more than five times without ending up thinking it's a pretty funny sounding term and/or sounds like it should be a term used to describe something in the legal profession.