Worry About Your Own Uterus

“Hey… plz stop comparing abortion to the Holocaust… I can’t say they’re not both equally legally sanctioned immoral situations… but I’m pro-choice and it hurts my feelings that you’re implying I’m the same as a Nazi”

consider:

However, as far as biology goes, we know that the pre-born are as human as we and they meet all the criteria for life. Rather than trying to regulate abortion, we should be pushing for the government to define when life begins (no such definition exists in the U.S.) and then extend the same rights to all people.

Whenever some eugenicist pro-choicer starts talking about how the world is overpopulated and/or consciousness is an illusion anyway I want to say, “Well, you’re free to kill yourself then.”

To anyone who is unsure about the upcoming referendum, please take five minutes out of your day to read some of the many stories from Irish women denied the right to choose in their own country.

Banning abortion endangers pregnant people’s heath!

Anti-abortion violence in the US is disgustingly common.

There have been attempted murders, actual murders, kidnappings, poisonings, assaults, arsons, bombings, threats, and vandalism performed by the pro-life side. This is on top of the daily harassment, manipulation, and usage of gore in their movement.

One time I was in a public health class and we started talking about the different gender dynamics in different societies. Even in our society, a woman may be raped or even just coerced by her husband to have sex and then a baby comes in the process. However what is the proposed solution? More abortions…. however that does not address the warped gender dynamic. 

Having an abortion does not get back at the rapist or the husband/partner who can’t take no. Rather the abortion happens and the perpetrator is left free. Some people may argue that it is the first step and then justice will be served but at what cost. Why does a life have to be taken?

You also cannot tell me that going to other countries and giving them access to abortions is suddenly going to solve their problems. You cannot go on and tell the woman living in a society where she is not allowed to go to school or where her job prospects are limited or where her country is suffering under a famine or a drought that everything is going to be “a-okay” if she just had an abortion. Having an abortion may give her one less mouth to feed but her situation is about the same when her child was not even conceived.

If you want less abortions, give women the power to defend themselves. Give men and women advice as to how to plan their sex life and how to listen to one another. Give woman the power to rise to higher levels (especially educational) in their life where they are able to make things better for those around them and for their children. Advise women to always take precaution when engaging in sex and to always remind them that pregnancy is always a risk, though it is also a blessing. Contribute to medical research aimed towards making the delivery process better and to help doctors communicate effectively with their female patients. Stop giving them a crutch without accountability. 

Even in our society, a woman may be raped or even just coerced by her husband to have sex and then a baby comes in the process. However what is the proposed solution? More abortions…. There isn’t a proposed solution in regards to pregnancy from rape. Some people who are pregnant from such circumstances want to continue their pregnancy and raise the child. That’s their solution. Some people want to continue the pregnancy and give the child up for adoption. That’s their solution. Some people don’t want to be pregnant with their rapist’s child. In that case, abortion is their solution. 

Having an abortion does not get back at the rapist or the husband/partner who can’t take no. I’m gonna let you in on a little secret. Abortion isn’t about punishment. It’s about not fucking being pregnant.

Rather the abortion happens and the perpetrator is left free. What is your point? Does forcing someone to have their rapist’s baby automatically send their rapist to jail, unlike abortion? No, it does not. The fate of a rapist has literally nothing to do with whether or not they produced a child.

Why does a life have to be taken? Can you please inform me of any other way to end an unwanted or unsafe pregnancy?

You also cannot tell me that going to other countries and giving them access to abortions is suddenly going to solve their problems. If the problem is that people in these countries are dying from unsafe abortions and these countries have extremely high maternal mortality rates... then yes, safe, accessible abortion (alongside other reproductive healthcare that is generally neglected in places where abortion is illegal) is the solution. 

You cannot go on and tell the woman living in a society where she is not allowed to go to school or where her job prospects are limited or where her country is suffering under a famine or a drought that everything is going to be “a-okay” if she just had an abortion. I can guarantee that literally no one has ever told you that abortion is the solution to drought. You’re talking out of your ass.

If you want less abortions, give women the power to defend themselves. ????????????? defend themselves from what exactly???????????

Give woman the power to rise to higher levels (especially educational) in their life where they are able to make things better for those around them and for their children. Advise women to always take precaution when engaging in sex and to always remind them that pregnancy is always a risk, though it is also a blessing. Contribute to medical research aimed towards making the delivery process better and to help doctors communicate effectively with their female patients. You can do every single one of these things and abortion will still be necessary (especially considering half of them have... nothing to do with abortion?). Sex education and access to birth control are proven to reduce abortion rates, but you can’t just say “warn people about the potential risks that come with sex!” and think that will erase the need for any abortion ever. We consistently warn people about the risk of contracting STIs, but for some reason I don’t see anyone saying STI treatment shouldn’t be available to the people who do contract them.