It's not a child, it's a choice?

I recently caught an old episode of Gilmore Girls in which Rory is in her second year at Yale. Every bit the little “feminist,” she resides in her own room plastered with posters decrying the “War on Choice.” I thought this an interesting/contradictory motif for this series to propel, considering the focal point of said series is a relationship between a mother and daughter that is abnormally intimate due their proximity in ages. It makes me wonder how differently the series would have turned out if Loralei had opted for abortion when she was single, sixteen and inconveniently pregnant with Rory. Personally, I don’t believe in the legitimacy of choices that snuff out the existence of innocent human beings, whether those innocents are workers in the World Trade Center or “products of conception” with beating hearts inside their mother’s wombs. I guess it’s sweet that Rory is defending her mother’s right to choose whether she lived or died… or maybe it’s just sick.