Today is Blog for Choice Day, and the topic is supposed to be why I am pro-choice. The answer is really simple: I don’t own much, but I do own my body.

Is an embryo a person? I don’t care. No person or non-person has more of a right to my body than I do.

When I was a goody-two-shoes teen, I thought that women who got pregnant had only themselves to blame. And then I grew up. Then I started to realize just exactly what I was condemning people to with my self-righteousness. I was yanking control of their bodies away from them, saying they weren’t allowed to be unlucky, or to make mistakes, without losing their most fundamental individuality.

In a way, I think we pro-choicers overstate the threat to our rights. The right wingers make so little attempt to outlaw abortion that I truly believe they don’t really want to. Oh, they talk about how it’s murder, but then they sit on their asses and keep voting in the same people who have done nothing.

Still, we should be vigilant. Nothing is more important than our rights. And as we’ve seen, people who think nothing of abortion rights seem to think nothing of all those pesky rights like speech, or religion, or search and seizure.

Let’s defend all of our rights all the time.