See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 

If it’s not a choice, if there is no choice available in continuing a pregnancy, that means it’s enforced. That the woman, the thinking, feeling, human being with a life, is now enslaved to her uterus. Continuously, unceasingly, for 40 weeks. No matter the cost to her health, her family, her education, her career, or her future. If there is no choice, it’s a punishment, as @fandomsandfeminism eloquently pointed out. If it’s not a choice, it’s slavery.

Men get to have non-procreative sex without consequence. Men are not enslaved for 10 months while another living being parasitically feeds on them. Men are not punished for exercising their right to bodily autonomy. Men are not shamed and made to listen to medically inaccurate bullshit and forced to travel for hundreds of miles, sometimes twice in three days, for wanting at least the rights given to a corpse.

Limiting and outlawing abortion is about punishing women for having sex for the pleasure of it. Period. Because if it weren’t, then these so-called “pro-lifers” would really BE pro- the lives of the women involved. They would be insisting on expansive, science-based, free, easily accessible sexual education. They would make sure birth control (because that’s what prophylactics do, they CONTROL WHEN YOU GIVE BIRTH) would be easily available and free. They would push for prenatal care, and inexpensive quality child care available to everyone, and paternal leave, and eliminating the “mommy track.” They would push for adoption by gay couples. 

But “pro-lifers,” particularly the really religious ones, don’t do any of that, do they? They’re not even all that “pro-fetus,” because it’s hard to get prenatal care if you’re poor. No, “pro-lifers” are all about making pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing into punishments for women who have sex. 

also me: …….what if zero came back tho

You’re telling me that a guy who risked his career for Jude the first person he’s ever loved, and was fully prepared to provide an alibi for, who he bought a house for that theyre in the middle of rebuilding, the man who is his only reliable provider of comfort and emotional stability… You’re telling me Zero just walked away after they finally got their relationship to a stable happy place, at his insistence? (Jude was the one desperately trying to move on, Zero was the entire reason they got back together, Jude was done playing until the surprise coming out kiss)

How they gonna explain this? Like, is Zero in a coma? Is he in jail? Is he dead? ….Nothing else would make even a tiny bit of sense? Cause we’ve literally just watched 2 seasons of this man falling for Jude, learning how to love at all, understanding what it means to sacrifice for someone who becomes more important than anything else- including his professional career, where he just got the Top of the Food Chain job?

OK maybe they could have convinced me that Jude and Zero were having a rocky time, Zero did some stupid shit and now he’s in jail/rehab, but how they gonna explain him just walking away from the best promotion of his career???

Bitch please. Zude is 100% of the reason I watch this show. If they think I’m gonna swallow some trash about Zero leaving Jude for any reason whatsoever (cause he would never and we all know it) sorry not sorry, next season is dead in the water before it’s even started let’s be real