Dedication and determinationAfter going to
Dedication and determination
After going to 3 incorrect polling places and spending 20 minutes trying to get through to the Election Board, I was finally able to negate one middle-aged, upper-middle class, male vote.
I was just so determined to get my vote counted this year that I was willing to drive around all day until I found the proper place to vote. Plus I want to have the privilege of being able to bitch about politics for the next 4 years.
And, as a woman, this election was very important, not just for who will be in the White House for the next 4 years, but who they put on the Supreme Court for the next 2 generations. What doesn't effect me will effect my son's future wife and their (possible) daughter(s). In my opinion, I can not believe that a woman who is pro-choice would in good conscience vote for Bush.
As this argument would take up far to much space here, I would gladly discuss it off the page. But just know this, while there is alot about abortion (ie., funding, partial-birth) that I do not like, I am completely for the right to choose one and the legal accessibility of it for women.
And yes, I am able to vote this way today because my biological mother did not choose to have an abortion, but put me up for adoption. She made the decision before it was a legal (and safer than a back alley doctor) option to terminate, so that begs the question, had it been legal would she have had the procedure? Who knows, but at least now, women have the option to choose, and that should not be put into jeopardy.
Posted by thatothrgirl at November 7, 2000 05:09 PM