My body, my rights, my responsibilities

[susandennis]

The right to chose whether or not to have a child is the exclusive right of women.  When men get the option of carrying children in their bodies, they can have the right, too.  I've been hearing so much lately from men about this woman's right to chose.  I have yet to understand what business it is of theirs.  But it is also no other woman's right to remove my choice. 

A recent high profile suicide has led to similar pronouncements that suicide is wrong.  I know that in many places suicide is against the law and I know that in many religions suicide is a sin but again, it is my body and my choice and if I look at all the options and I understand and respect the affect my taking my own life will have on my relationships and responsibilities, and then, I decide to kill myself, it is no one's business but mine.  And no one has the right to prevent the execution of my choice. 

I am not pregnant (in so many ways) and I have no plans (nor even any good info on how) to take my own life.  But, I have a platform for voicing my opinion and so I do.