Afleitch for Governor- Statement on Abortion and the RTL amendment.

[afleitch]

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

Abortion is an issue that has lately been brought back into the political arena with the recent proposals for a Right to Life amendment. My position on abortion has perhaps been misinterpreted so I am here to clarify. I am Pro-Choice, I personally wish for abortion to be safe, legal and exceedingly rare.

Being pro-choice does not necessarily mean that I am pro-abortion. You can actively oppose abortion and still accept its legality if you understand the alternative. In fact I myself oppose abortion in many instances. What it means to me, is that I understand that maing it illegal, making it a punishable crime will NOT stop the practice. Instead it will be dragged away from the clinics and into the back alleys or into the hands of the mother herself. I do not want to see unscrupulous people profit from it by supplying it , I do not want to see mothers trying to self-induce miscarriage and I do not want the practice driven underground where it cannot be seen and where it cannot be regulated.

A miscarriage is a traumatic event for any mother or father and I do not want to see the police, or the government knocking on her door and demanding to check whether the miscarriage was spontaneous or self-induced. That is the road in which I believe Atlasia and the Mideast could go down if this amendment is passed and self-imposed miscarriage is seen as the only option avaliable to women, teenage girls and the victims of rape. If you support or oppose abortion I hope you will oppose this amendment and I myself will do so.

Thank you, good night and God bless.

[afleitch]

With an abortion initiative making the MidEast ballot it looks like it is going to be next months big issue. I just hope it will not be the only issue come January.