I am on your side one hundred percent, but I will vote for pro-choice if the chance comes along. The reason that I will do this is important for you to know. It may change your own attitudes to destruction of the human fetus.

This entire civilization we enjoy today is possible only because we women have basically been strong enough to endure the role God and man gave us: bearing and raising young. We concieved long before there was a thing called marriage. We gave birth on our own long before Dr�s and hospitals. We raised these babies on our own long before marriage gave us partners. And they survived to become Nations.

Our grown sons created a world we are not meant to live in.

They started by binding us to them in marriage because we gave them pleasure and fed and cared for them. And we agreed because we too were lonely and two are safer than one. Ever since we have been denied other partners while they have retained the right to as many as they wanted.

Because they have never carried a child in their belly nine months and bore it in pain and nursed it and cleaned it and raised it, they have not the profound respect for life that we have and so they created war, took our young and killed them.

By now marriage had made us dependant on men so we had no choice but to go on giving life. Then they invented a new religion without a female diety, and we became subordinate to the male and not a partner. They made laws and rules about our life. Within those harsh laws we continued to do what nature had decreed; we continued to bear young; in agony, in misery, in bondage, in shame.

The need to give life is as strong in us as in any animal in field or forest, any bird or fish. No matter what state the world has been in we have had no control over it or our need to breed. We have just done our best to work around or in the system and carry on our destiny.

But our natural instincts have been destroyed. Not by God who gave them to us but by the unnatural interference of our sons. For we women had the same ability as all other creatures on earth of controlling our birthrate. If we had been left alone I have no doubt that we would never have bred more than our enviroment would handle. But we have become as the domesticated dogs and cats. Denied the right to mate naturally they must take anything and everyone when the opportunity arises. We have become a world curse with our over breeding. We women are destroying the earth. Whether consciously or unconsciously in an act of vengeance against mans world, it amounts to the same thing. We are overcrowded, underfed and with a future at stake for the next generation. Every scientist and enviromentalist is telling us this fact. In the last 80 years we have witnessed the deaths of millions of our children by war, famine and desease. Most of these tragedys are man made.

But we women bore those men and raised them. We are to blame for their actions and no one else. We are to blame for over breeding and no one else. We have lost the natural ability to control our rate of breeding.

Of course birth control pills and sterilization and abortion are not the correct answer to this world problem! The correct answer is known to every adult female in the world. That answer is to teach our world to control their sexual impulses. An impulse that is an overpowering urge, I might add, that was created by nature/god to keep and maintain our species along with all the others.

To do that we would have to go back in time and rewrite history. This we cannot do. Nor, does it seem, can we change what we are. No matter how poor we are, or how overpopulated or intellegent, the need to be held in a loving embrace will lead to coitus and from there to a new life, even tho that new life is unwanted.

It is not sensible for pro-lifers to cry...�you have made it - you must bear it- God insists! �God insists nothing of the kind! He does not insist on war to kill off babies, yet you accept that. God does not insist on famine caused by wars or politics, yet you accept that. God does not insist on rape to create life, or incest. Are you saying you will accept even that method of creation? To do that is to condone rape and incest. And I, as a woman who respects life and the right to bear life as a gift from God, am appalled that you see it only as a �must have because you did it� form of punishment a child of 18 or under must carry for the rest of her life. What sick satisfaction can any human derive from that kind of punishment? Isn�t it enough that she must remember the pain and fear? Must she give birth to the result? Is she expected to forget how it came to be and love it in spite of how it was created? If all God wanted from women was a creature that was capable of breeding the male race, only the male would need to experiance passion and the female would concieve every time as some animals do. That is not the case.

We are two halves of a whole. Only complete when we are joined in love and from that love another human is born. In this manner a sane race is bred. It need not be the same partner for all conceptions but anyone can realize in their heart that the ideal society is created by stability and so a permanent mating is desirable. When we are forced in any way to concieve against our wills a chaotic society emerges. That is what we have been experiencing for most of our recorded history.

It was mans religion, not God, who brought shame on women for bearing life. The word �sin� is first mentioned in the Bible in regard to Cain! Not Eve. Look it up! The word was never used against Adam or Eve! And for some unknown reason, Cains sin was-not giving a meat offering. Since man alone is the recorder and the interpreter of the Bible, it is foolish for women to abide by this book. Believe in God, for he is there, but he needs no recorded words to let us know how to believe or behave towards one another. That is written on our hearts and in our souls. When we work with him we are well in spirit and in body. When we work against him we are ill in both. It is not an accident that these so called men of God are being exposed as perverts and panderers, cheats and liars. When we set ourselves up to be better than our fellow humans or claim to be speaking for God, that better be true or you will come a cropper for sure.

I for one am no better, no worse, than my fellow human, but I do not feel that I have the right to tell others what to do with their lives. Nor do I want others to tell me and mine what to do with our lives. I have six granddaughters and I cannot, as a woman take away their rights to their own body. They have the right for the firsT time in recorded history to decide for themselves who�s child they will bear. They alone must bear the burden of the loss if they decide for abortion or the burden if they keep it. For too long we women have had to pay a life sentence for one moment of error or of being the one to pay when raped. Even the rapest when caught doesn�t get that kind of a sentence.

I have met the women of the pro-life movement before in the pages of history. She helped throw stones at her sister when she was caught in adultry. None were thrown at the men. She became a nun for a male religion and either denied her womanhood or had her babies in secret and killed them to keep the secret. For the Church to deny this ever took place is a laugh and a denial of the facts. And a refusal to accept the responsabilities of their priests behaviour. She has turned her back on a child born out of wedlock and called it a bastard to shame it so that she could be seen as �decent� by the amoral men who created those unwanted children. All this to appease men. I do not read one word or hear one word spoken in anger by these women against the thoughtless male who takes his pleasure without responsability, who takes it by force from a child and even his own child. Nor does there seem to be revulsion by these women against those men who cannot control themselves sexually.

There is much in this world that needs changing. If you must work for a cause then I suggest you start where the problem begins. Our attitude towards ourselves. As long as we have no respect for our own bodies and lives then no one else will have any respect for them either. We are like pebbles tossed in a pond; what goes out from us returns to us. If we show respect for life then we may teach those around us to respect it also.

Respect for life means you don�t force me to bear an unwanted child. The seeding of my womb is a special act of love that I will carry for nine months and care for for the rest of my life.