VA-04: When is it a choice?

I just thought I'd write this one up real quick.

I was browsing through the Issues portion of the Virginia Democrats' latest flop of a candidate for the 4th district, when I read the following paragraph:

I attended a private, Catholic, all-girls school in an upper middle-class Midwest suburb; my parents selected the school because it was one of the top National Merit Scholarship "factories" in the state and most of the school's graduates went on to top private colleges. During my junior year, six of my classmates became pregnant; six of my classmates-all with parental assistance-terminated their pregnancies. I am positive that before their daughters became pregnant at 16, all of those parents would have stated emphatically that they were against abortion and that there were many other options available. However, when faced with the life-altering situations that teen pregnancy brings, every one opted out. For my former classmates and their parents, it was a choice: finish school, go to college, marry well, achieve financial stability and then start a family.

I placed emphasis on the latter portion because it is the very point for which the entire article should have revolved: make that choice first. But in keeping with the typical liberal ideology on copping out of bad decision, Andrea Miller seeks to play on the emotions of sympathetic parents wishing merely the best for their kids. Does Miller not also see getting pregnant the initial choice, and one that cannot be undone? Should those girls not have "opted out" of the pregnancy before they created a new life?

Therein lies the difference between the pro-life and the pro-choice crowds: the view of responsibility for your actions, and the weight of choice.