hello!  i'm prochoice and have been since i was 19.  i saw a picture of a woman who died from an illegal abortion. the first thing out out of my WAF commanders mouth to me in 1972 was, " if you want an abortion you'll have to go out of state.  i was 21, knew no doctor in that state or any state who would give me an abortion if i needed one.  the air force was very sexist then.
many of the man were hostile, arrogant, overbearing, demanding, abusive, cluleess.
they wanted what they wanted when they wanted it regardless at what cost to a woman. whether it was sex, her money, her time, her attention, her life.  i would have had to make the arrangements entirely on my own to call some strange doctor in some state that i did not know how to get to, ask him if he would give me an abortion, most would have said no then. i would have had to ask for annual leave, i had to justify taking annual leave. fly or drive to another state pay for everything out of my very low wages,
take the time for the procedure,time for healing, and drive or fly back all within the time i was alloted for annual leave, which was not a full month until i had served a year in the air force.
and not tell anyone at all, many other people, including men, would have raged at me and called me a slut or whore for having premarital sex, while many thought it ok to put notches on their belt for scoring with a date and as many women as they could.  the attitude then by many was she asked for it if she was raped or beaten and about men, he's a stud, boys will be boys.  you've got to expect him to try and he wants sex its owed to him if he's paying the bills or for the date.  i've taken men out on dates and did not expect or demand sex in return.  i can pay for my own meal and have been able to since i was 14 1/2 when i started working.

i was told to go to work by my mother if i expected to go to college and was told to go to work when i was sick by my mother.  neither my mother or father said or told that to my brother.
my father said repeatedly about me, "she's trying, she can't.  and to my brother, your not trying you can.  he was lazy and i was an overachiever.  he took his anger out on me after my father bullied him and everyone else in the family and my father beat my mother, my brother and me because we were property. my brother bullied me but expected me to protect him from our parents and my mother expected me to protect her from my father.  when i told her my dad made a pass at me, from then on she put me in the front seat of the car when we went anywhere as a family.  she made no attempt to protect me from my dad.  when i turned to her for help in dealing with my dad, she just pushed me away, ignored me or said your brother needs me.  she was not there for me and my dad took me everywhere with him.  even to adult movies meant for adult males.  this was before r, and x rated movies.  it was always about my dad's ego, his feelings, and my mother was self aborbed and both were negligent, self serving, emotionally, physically, verbally abusive.  when i've called them on this stuff, they rage at me.  so didn't my brother.  my brother has never stopped criticizing me, denigrating me, exploding at me, demanding i understand him.  none of them have the common decency to listen to me or back off of criticizing or denigrating me.  its always about them. i served in the air force for 4 years and upon discharge, my dad said, "you can't do the air force.  most men have said to me,"you can't."
none of them ever asked anything about me at all.  i worked 17 years at a federal psychiatric
hospital and walked out because i couldn't take the constant denigration, raging, bullying, demeaning, sexual innuendos, sexual harrassment, sexually degrading jokes even by "nice" men who were less or more educated than i.  they just about all were arrogant and condescending, entitled, privileged, white, with
one male phillopino, homosexual psychiatrist, who had been in this country for decades and he was still, a rager, a bully, overbearing, domineering, overcontrolling, verbally abusive.
i'm on  ssdi and 100% va disability.  i earned it.
so yes, i'm pro era women have served in every war this country has ever had.  women do most of the labor in the world, more women than men have PTSD than men.  most cultures are oppressive, harsh, judgemental, hostile to women, except for all the scandinavian countries, britain, canada, austrailia, new zealand, spain which all have better treatment, laws etc. for women than even the U.S.yes, i'm pro era, its long overdue.  we still do not have enough women ceos, coos, cfos, women senators, congress women, etc.  we are long overdue for a woman president, whether white or a woman of color.  many progressives prefer
mr. obama, and mr. edwards.  especially mr. edwards, he  speaks to mostly men's issues and lives in his speeches.   wake up people, women on this planet do not have enough power over themselves or anything else.  yes i have the right to be angry.