On this past Wednesday, I went to a Naral Pro Choice America Luncheon with my mom and a few of my old classmates from elementary school. Listening to speakers talk about pro choice really made me realize how anyone could ever not be pro choice. Imagine yourself as a teengage year old girl and being raped by your own father? How could you not believe that getting abortion isn't the right thing to do? As I heard many individuals talk about their situations, the one that really stood out to me, was doctor Susan Wicklund. She is a health physician and author of the novel, The Common Secret, My Journey as an Abortion Doctor.
Dr. Wicklund has been giving abortions for more than 20 years now. She is constantly traveling to different parts of the country to serve her duty as an abortion doctor. She told stories of how she once had protestors place huge cement barrels behind her car in the driveway, so she wouldnt be able to get out in the morning when she was getting ready to drive to work. Susan Wicklund never gave up. She knew that if she wasn't there to serve her duty, no one else would have been. The only reason she kept going was because she herself had had 2 abortions. Not only that, but her grandma's best friend was pregnant from her own father and her grandma was the one who tried to save her by sticking a sharp tool up her best friend and tried to kill the baby herself. Instead of killing the baby, she killed her best friend. It was dreadful to hear this story, and you could see the tears starting to appear as she finished up telling us what had happened that day her grandma told her. After I heard that marvelous woman talk, it really motivated me to start telling people to be pro choice. As a result, I wrote this blog post in order to inform teenagers, parents, and any age group to really sit back and realize that getting an abortion is really NOT a bad decision.
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