Today - I wanted to reaffirm my support of a woman's right to choose. I have been neglecting my site and blog - partly due to activist burnout, partly due to a demanding job. That got me thinking...

So much legislative action has been focused on whittling away that the basic right to birth control and abortion - that a woman's basic right to support herself is under attack.

The goal of these laws are not only to undermine the most basic rights of women, but to control us - if a woman cannot control the spacing and number of pregnancies, it is going to be much harder for a woman to be productive in the workforce. These laws have the effect of making women second class citizens. We have the right to work, we have the right to support ourselves and our families, we have the right to decide what happens to our bodies and we have the right to control our family size. It's that simple. There is no more common ground to come to - we have given up everything we can give up, any more "compromise" and the cause is lost. I, for one, will not go quietly.