Students for Life of America

You literally cannot deny a pregnant person their reproductive rights and call yourself a feminist. That’s not how that shit goes.

The basic tenants of feminism is equal rights, and right to self ownership (AKA, the right to bodily autonomy). There is no right to use a persons body without that persons consent. Like, that much is basically Feminism 101.

If supporting a consistent ethic of equality and nonviolence means that I must oppose the legality of some “choices”, then we’ll be openly anti-rapists-choice-to-rape, anti-abortionists-choice-to-kill-the-preborn, anti-mother’s-choice-to-have-her-child-killed, anti-soldier’s-choice-to-kill-civilians, anti-executioner’s-choice-to-kill-inmates, anti-CIA-agent’s-choice-to-torture, anti-pimp’s-choice-to-traffick-slaves. Some choices are wrong, and the so-called “right” to commit an act of aggressive violence against another human being can never be a human right. That’s why we oppose all acts of aggressive violence: yes, abortion, but also unjust war (which is practically every war these days), torture, euthanasia (i.e. the active killing of the disabled without consent), trafficking, abuse, capital punishment, bullying, etc. etc. All human beings *do* own their bodies, and what’s so exceptionally radical about pro-life feminism is that we believe that you own your body from the moment that you begin to exist! This (hopefully) prevents attitudes like ableism from pervading our feminism as well, because it doesn’t matter how capable you are of certain actions, as long as you’re human, you deserve human rights. This isn’t valuing the fetal human being over the adult human being, it’s merely understanding that all human beings have the same basic natural rights. Human rights start when human life begins! Let’s put it another way: a woman owns a house. She, by some actions she has taken, has brought a toddler into the house. She changes her mind, and wants to get rid of the toddler. She would likely be arrested for negligence if she starved the child to death, or if she had a doctor come into her house and dismember the toddler or poison the toddler. At the very least, while the child was in her house, she would be responsible for the care of the child until she could pass off care to someone else. A woman owning her body is similar: she can’t kill the child that’s living there just because she doesn’t want it there anymore. That child has its own right to his/her own sovereignty and life, from the very beginning of their life.