"But Baby..."

I am a 14 year old girl, and a freshman in high school. I go to a great school, have amazing friends, and have found a love so deep and so early it’s impossible to understand. That said, I am also a feminist. I am relatively new to the feminism sphere sure, but I have always been fast holding in my opinions, beliefs, and ideals. One big thing for me is pro-choice legality.

Today, I mentioned the fact that although I don’t care for either Super Bowl team this year, I am for the Saints because of Scott Fujita and what he stands for. My boyfriend has never taken me for a feminist and thought I didn’t seem like the ‘type’. He likes feminists, he likes me, and so there was no problem with this situation. That is until I brought up being pro -choice and he quickly informed me of his pro- life (in my opinion anti -choice with a nice title) status.

To speak honestly, I was surprised. Not only is this coming from my anti-law/government partner, but also from a boy who is for gay rights and, not surprisingly, pot, not to mention other things. I know this doesn’t seem like too big of a surprise and that I may be overreacting, and that’s what I told myself until, and here’s the kicker, he then said, “If there wasn’t a law against killing, I wouldn’t care. I just think it's hypocrisy.”

Wait, let me get this straight...I was just informed that if there were no law against murder he wouldn’t care? How does that make sense?

Tell me, how would you handle this situation? For now I’ll let it go but if this comes up again, I hope to have a better handle on how to respond to this situation.