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(99,707 posts) Fri Jul 4, 2014, 06:58 AM Jul 2014

Guest Editorial — Susan Bruce: Big Daddy Hobby Lobby Knows Best

http://nhlabornews.com/2014/07/guest-editorial-susan-bruce-big-daddy-hobby-lobby-knows-best/

By Susan Bruce

I was 18 in 1974, the year that Roe v. Wade was enacted. I was pregnant. My doctor sat me down to explain my options to me. All of them. She was very thorough. I decided I was having a baby. She thought I was nuts. There I was, a high school dropout with a substance abuse problem, no money, no skills, and no family support, deciding to have a baby.

Did you notice the key word in that last sentence? I DECIDED. It was my CHOICE.

Susan Bruce

That has made all the difference. I was not forced to be an involuntary incubator. It was my body. It was my choice.

It’s been painful to watch most of women’s hard won freedoms begin to erode. None has been more painful than the renewal of the war on choice. It’s pretty simple. Either we are equal human beings who have a right to medical privacy and bodily autonomy or we are not.

FULL story at link.

Susan Bruce is a local progressive advocate in New Hampshire. She writes a bi-weekly column for the Conway Daily Sun newspaper in N. Conway, NH and blogs at “Susan The Bruce.” She is a producer and co-hosts a local radio program “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen.” You can follow her on twitter at @SusanThe

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