Pro Choice

One of my neighbours has put up a 3x6 foot Pro Life yard sign. It has colour, and a picture. It must have cost some money to make it. I wonder why they're not spending that money to help all the kids in foster care, waiting RIGHT NOW to get adopted? And when you start regulating medical proceedures, where does it end? If they made abortions illigal in New Brunwick again, would the suicide rate go up?

It's already impossible for poor people here to have an abortion. If you live in Saint John, you need about $500 and transportation to Fredericton. The clinic may waive the fee, if you know enough to ask, but how does a third generation welfare recipient get a drive to a city 2 hours away? Imagine that you have a minimum wage job, you're 15 years old, and you can't tell anyone. Exactly.

So, folks, that's why I have three tiny, one colour Pro Choice signs in my yard. For a friend I had in high school, who had two unwanted kids at 17 years old.