Up until a couple of days ago, I considered myself pro-life.

We have condoms, birth control pills, and Plan B. If you're not ready to have children, and still manage to get pregnant, it's because you're irresponsible. It's way too easy to prevent pregnancy nowadays to have to rely on abortions to take care of your "problem."

That's my opinion.

But I was in English, and we're reading 1984. So we started talking about how much control the government should have. You know, losing personal freedoms for the public's benefit. Somehow, pro-choice became the crux of the argument, and that's when the realization hit.

Being pro-life means that you're willing to let the government tell you what you can do with your body. Your body is the only physical thing you own that no one else has the right to mess with. For this reason, I am pro-choice, because the government does not have a right to tell me what I can do with my body. It is mine, and mine alone.

But this doesn't mean I believe in abortions; it simply means that I strongly support individual freedom.