Why Pro-Choice is also Pro-Life

I had a dog who was half Golden Retriever and half Irish Setter named Lessa. We bred her with another Golden and she had a LOT of puppies - 14 to be exact.

She would allow 12 of them to nurse, but she would gently nose out of the way two of the puppies when they tried to push their way in to nurse. I watched her do this and would try and help the puppies find a tit as one of the other pups finished. Again, Lessa would gently nose these same two puppies out of the way. As hard as it was to watch this process, I realized that Lessa was doing what was best for her own body and the rest of the pups. She could only support and nourish 12 puppies and that was what she was going to do.

When a human woman gets pregnant, she must also make the decison about whether she is able to support and nourish this new life growing inside her. This can be a very hard - even harsh - decision, but it is what nature has given to the female of each species to do. We as women have the power to decide life or death for our unborn children. As hard as this is for some men and even some women to accept, this is our dharma, our path, our right.

To exercise our right to choose is to be pro-life. We are embracing our life as a woman as a womb-man. The woman that can nurture and sustain life is also the one who must be able to choose whether she is able to do so when the pregnancy occurs.

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