To the editor:
Every person has a right to a choice when it involves their lives and their bodies, just as every person has a right to their voice.
Pro-Life demonstrations have just as much of a right to be held as pro-choice, however, the way that this particular group, the Canadian Centre for Bio-ethical Reform, s chosen to demonstrate is gruesome and appalling. Using fear tactics such as these images of aborted fetuses is a way of making women feel guilty and ashamed of their actions, when it was their choice to make.
If someone does not feel they are capable of going to term with a child, or taking care of it afterwards then it is their choice to abort. Should abortion be used as a form of birth control? No I don't think so, but it is every women's right to live her life as she chooses, just as it is every mans right to live theirs.
People should be more open to debating the issue of this magnitude,as I feel people still shy away from this topic.
Debating it openly would rid us of the taboo, and offer us more insight into the women who make these choices. The people who truly deserve to be a part of this debate, but are often left out, are those who are affected by it, the women who's bodies are being openly discussed and who's right to their own lives may be taken away.
Canada has recently been added to the UN's human rights list for the protesting ban in Quebec. Canada has always been a country proud of its stance in the world, a place where people have the right to be themselves and live as they choose. When these choices are taken away Canada will be no better than anywhere else in the world and our pride and freedom will be taken away. I love this country but I reserve the right to my body and hope that the majority of Canadians believe in the right of each person to have the most vital of things in this world, a choice.
Kailyn O'Shea,
Thunder Bay
