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As I celebrate the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade this year, I feel a great sense of hope and comfort that has been absent for years in the fact that my President, Barack Obama, shares my views on abortion and understands that “government should not intrude on our most private family matters.”
I strongly believe that a woman should be able to control her body and have the right to make decisions regarding her personal reproductive health for her own life as well as family. As women practice their right to choose, others must learn to trust and honor their decisions about their bodies and lives. Personal reproductive decisions should be made at the free will of the woman, not governed.
With the leadership of our new President, I hope that other countries around the world will acknowledge that by legalizing abortions, abortions are safe and ensure the safety of women. This should render the right to an abortion a human right.
To one who opposes abortions because of the belief that an abortion is murder, one must realize that we live in a society where we make choices of life and death all the time. We allow TB, malaria and AIDS to plague nations, allow genocides to run rampant across the continent of Africa, claim lives in Afghanistan and Iraq, and allow rockets to continue to bring Palestine to crumbles. Is that murder?
We are free beings living in a free society and I believe that no one has the right to impose their morals upon another.
Roe v. Wade protects a woman's right to choose, a basic human right, which all women should be entitled to.
~Samantha