What a contested topic, especially for women to discuss between themselves. Either we are pro-choice or pro-life, there doesn't seem to be anyone who will stand up for the women who believe in a compromise. I understand the issue is one of faith, as a Christian woman who is also a business woman who has fought the feminist battle in the workplace, I feel there are so many of us caught in the middle of this.
I will not accept going back to the back room abortion scenario, yet I cannot comprehend the horrible reality of late term abortion. I have come to a conclusion that seems so simple.
When are we going to teach our young female children to simply grow up with the power and knowledge to say no?
It is truly our responsibility as mature and educated women who know our own power and strengths to teach our young children that it's not only okay to say no, but it is the only choice they have? It is not a matter of abstinence, it is a matter of women who understand they have the final responsibility.
Birth control is not a 100% solution, ask anyone who has had a rather large shock when confronted by pregnancy when using a 98% effective method. Most birth control devices are not only questionable when you talk to your doctor about effectiveness, but also safety, and they don't put the power back where it belongs and that is with the young woman who has the ultimate choice to say no.
I also understand many women are faced with pregnancy caused by rape, and even more horrible, incest.
BUT.....
95% of the abortions are done not only once, but multiple times with the same woman. A woman who has not been educated as to her power and strength as a woman. She is taught to be submissive, emotional and believes her strength is in how she can manipulate a man or boy. We as women are taught not to be strong, but to be emotionally frail, that it's more attractive and will get her what she thinks she wants.
Unfortunately, that male is oblivious to her plans, hopes, dreams and emotional state. He only has the next 5 minutes in his mind. Not the outcome, nor the danger for the woman who has the sole responsibility of bearing the next 9 months and make decisions that could not only destroy her own spirit, but bear the emotional turmoil for the rest of her life for that decision.
It seems even more important when it's our youngest women, 11 through 15 years of age who are feeling the most pressure to say yes to fit in. When did we allow sex to be focus of being cool and popular? When did we as educated women allow this to permeate the schools and streets? It is not cool, it's dangerous and destructive. That needs to be a primary message for us to pass on to our kids. Pregnancy is not cool, it's not even acceptable. And we are negating our own social power when remain quiet.
I believe if we would simply begin to tell our young daughters that they have a power and responsibility to wield that power to save and protect themselves from all this, if they would only stand firm, stand tall, stand strong and be the ultimate feminist, take control of thier own lives and bodies and say NO!
Remind them, coach them, yell at them if that's what it takes, and demand that it is socially, and emotionally unacceptable to be yielding and soft when so much is at stake. They will have the next 60 + years to be soft and motherly when the time is right. But it is not the right time when the destructiveness of abortion is only 5 minutes and a decision away.
No is a powerful word. It's even more powerful when it comes from a beautifully intelligent and strong young woman.
Abortion would simply end, or at least 95% of them, the other 5% is still up for debate.

If you ever have known a brilliant, young and starstruck, intelligent 25-28 year old woman, if you have a daughter just like this, a niece, a granddaughter.....just ask yourself how you would feel if that young lady had been seduced, humiliated, and emotionally destroyed by a man in a position of power and influence? If she had been used in a place of the highest national trust and prestige, a place that she was so honored and proud to serve, then been degraded and used without a thought of how that would affect her for the rest of her life.
Now ask yourself, if not only the man who had done that should be punished, but also the wife of that man? Who knew what was happening and did nothing to protect that young woman?
I cannot in my own reasoning excuse that wife, she had been married to that man for 20 some years and to ignore his unfaithfulness for her own dignity is one thing, to ignore the destruction of other women is something entirely different. And how many we didn't know about?
Hillary knew, and she ignored it in such a calculated manner that  my blood turns cold. Monica for all her youthful faults and trusting heart is to be the brunt of crude jokes, laughter and loss of innocence for the rest of her life, and that could have been avoided if Hillary had only stepped in and stopped it.
I am a mother of a 25 year old, and I absolutely cannot abide the heartless, political motives of a woman like Hillary Clinton who only sees what she can gain, and the power she can control if she plays the helpless victim where her husband is concerned. It's disgusting.
And she wants to be President?
President of the United States of America? The servant and leader for every american, the one person who is supposed to protect us and be a pillar of respect and intelligence for all nations to respect?
How can we allow a candidate like this to run for the highest office in the land?
Never mind the lack of military background, the lack of foreign affairs experience, (Please! Choosing dinner items for a state dinner does not qualify), and no highly placed civil service before her husband became president.
In this time of national crisis, terrorism at our doorstep, and the loss of armed servicemen and women who have suffered so much, how can we allow our nation to support this kind of candidate?
I ask you to confront this when you hear americans give her praise and support, ask them how they can rationally and with any kind of value system get behind this candidate? Please take a moment and consider the kind of person your considering to our President.
Please! Not Hillary!