HI. I am Frankie. I am 58. I have two sisters and two brothers. My sisters and I were born within a three and a half year time span of each other. We attended the same public schools and grew up in a very entrenched Catholic heritage that harkened back generations on both sides of our family. As adults, we found ourselves leading very different lifestyles and making very different choices and decisions. Among the three of us, one of us gave up a baby for adoption, one of us was treated for infertility and one of us had an abortion.
This is what being pro-choice means to me.
It means that each woman, each family, has choices about family planning, pregnancies, unintended or intended. It means that these decisions are made by the individual, in consultation with their physicians, caregivers and other significant members of their families. It is not a decision dictated by government or religious doctrines.
Each of us may have made a different choice at a different time in our lives. But the point is that we had a choice, we evaluated those options and, based on our needs, situations and resources at the time, we made our decisions. And that's how I believe it should be.
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