Odessa

This little gem was posted on the back of a car I saw today and it irked me.

The term is "pro-choice", not "pro-abortion" - get it right. Pro-choice people are not hog tying pregnant women and dragging them to clinics to get abortions. Pro-choice means just that, I do my thing, you do your thing. I have never told any Catholic or any other religious zealot that they were wrong to choose for themselves to carry a baby, wanted or not, disabled or not, to birth. Keep you religious based beliefs out of the law books, and tell your Pope to butt out, too. Thank you.

Please also consider the reaction if we saw the following bumper sticker "If you are a Jehovah's Witness, you can't be pro-organ transplantation even if your life depends on it" or this gem "Get a blood transfusion and go to hell". Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in getting blood transfusion or organ donations - How would Catholics like a law prohibiting both?

Or, how about, "If you are a {insert any number of religions} you will respect and obey you husband"? Can't see that a big seller, either.

We can not be a free country and let the religious beliefs of some dictate the choice for the rest. If you like your religion, great, glad you are at peace with that, but your beliefs are not necessarily mine or a great number of other peoples. I am at peace with my belief in a higher power and the desire of that higher power to let all make their own decisions. I may not choose abortion for myself, and thank god I have never had to make that kind of decision; however, I respect my fellow woman to enough to give her the right to decide for herself what is right for her. Please do the same and mind to your own affairs.