It is no longer my fight as a woman whose childbearing years are over, but the self righteous intrusion and sanctimonious tone used in the commercial immediately irritated me. For me it is hard to tolerate women who think they have the duty/right to determine how/what other adult women decide with regards to reproduction. I would never force someone else to bear a child. Neither would I force someone to abort. It is not my decision. It is not my resources that will be called upon. It is not my position to decide for someone else whether they will or will not bring another life into this world to raise or put up for adoption. It is a choice and a decision that only a parent can make. Only they will bear the responsibility for the satisfactions, sorrows, and struggles of their choices. Any and every other person's opinion on the matter is superfluous to a very personal and private decision.
When our society provides all children with the food, shelter, medical care, education, and protection from abuse (mental, physical, emotional, sexual, or financial) and sees them into successful adulthood regardless of race creed or color, then and only then, can "we" rightfully say that society has the ethical right to determine whether pregnancy should be legislated to result in a living child.
