Why I Call Myself Anti-Abortion Instead Of Pro-Life—And Why You Should Too
When I was in college, I fell in line with the belief that everyone around me adopted: Abortion was a woman's right that shouldn't be taken away by the government. "My body, my choice" was a motto I supported, even though I had never really thought about it much on my own.
I went through college, graduate school at an Ivy League University, and most of my 20s as a self-proclaimed pro-choice woman. I wanted to support women and their rights. After all, I believed that women deserved bodily autonomy. Why was the government constantly trying to step in and control what we do with our bodies? At least, those were the arguments I was taught to adopt blindly without question, but the older I got and the more I learned about abortion, I realized that I was being sold a lie.