CHOICE?

After reading “If these Uterine Walls Could Talk” by Valenti, I was shocked to learn how many restrictions are being put on birth control and unwanted pregnancies. I have always believed that it is the women’s choice on whether they want to have an abortion or not. No one should be making that decision for them. Abortions are not being done for the simple reason of not wanting the child but for other reasons as well. For example, if that child is going to be brought into this world to live a miserable life and be hungry most of the time then there is no point in having that child. Women should not be declined for an abortion.
More than anything, if much of a society is against abortion than they should not be against birth control. This is the way that women will be preventing the issue of abortion. There are cases like the example given in the book about a girl being raped and not being able to get the EC. This just outraged me, why would we want a woman young or older to have a painful memory of that event? Those women should be able to get the EC pill without questions.
Now about having it out in the open for everyone will I guess reduce the many teen pregnancies that there are. I know that it might have made a big difference back when I was in junior high. I remember when we would go to lunch. When we were eating, and towards the last ten minutes of lunch we would see this long line of pregnant teenagers getting their lunch. There were about ten to fifteen of them. If those girls would have had access to those birth control pills I can imagine the numbers would have been less. That is why it is better to be educated earlier than a bit too late.