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DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMYÂ
I can back this up. It isnât only their shelters.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and Iâve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
Iâm a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Armyâs disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. Thatâs not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONEâs Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
Donât FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.
My turn:
My family was in a real desperate spot. Like, close-to-homeless, fearing the very real possibility of living in a tent city. Without school or heating. In the Northwest winter. We asked the Salvation Army for a little help, nothing big just like maybe 1 monthâs rent so we could figure our shit out.
They said no. Well, not exactly; they said the most they would give was $50, that it was the only and total amount they would give ever foe the rest of time, and that we would have to provide proof that we were Christian.
My mom, unable to provide said proof since we arenât, was turned away and banned from ever asking again. Idk if this is how it is everywhere or if this is standard Salvation Army practice but it was what happened to us and we ended up having to scramble and ask for family help and pick up pennies off the street and even then we went without heating that month, so we were fucking freezing.
DO NOT DONATE TO THE SALVATION ARMY.
How do you....prove...that you're Christian?
Dafuq? Do they quiz you on Bible knowledge or something else asinine?
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Itâs sad because these girls love dancing and they love each other and their moms, but the toxicity of their environment is so bad. Itâs not always all Abby. Sheâs the wprst part of it, but not all of it. Most of these girls grew up with Abby and genuinely love her. She cares about them in her own way maybe. The thing I hate most is how a lot of the mothers often act. A lot of times, they think about themselves and not their children. Itâs always about the pride of the adults.
It really is. A lot of people like to place all the blame on Abby, but the moms blow things so out of proportion. I don't agree Abby should've gotten in her face, but she clearly was just trying to be silly. (Plus, Abby likely thought Kelly would get that and brush it off since they grew up together.)
IMO, this is when the show stopped being ridiculous and just got overall unpleasant all around.
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I have my own business but its connected to my house. I cleared land in the back so that theres a make shift parking lot. Theres a billion signs pointing in that direction. Today a customer came and parked in front of my personal driveway. I asked them to please move to the lot bc my husband and kids need to get out and they started screaming how im racist (im white and hes a person of color) and how i should post on my website that i dont allow immigrants. Like what.???
I fucking HATE people that do this shit...
stop holding ya pee for so damn long
Are you psychic?
no, i just know somebody following me is putting that shit off when itâs vital
No but really always reblog for a follower in need.
I used to be a receptionist at a school that didnât give us pee breaks. We had to hold our pee until our lunch or until the receptionist for the next shift came. (8 hour shifts, only 1 break). Sometimes I would ask other staff walking by to please watch the desk for a few minutes. Other times Iâd run to the bathroom literally right around the corner, leaving the desk empty and hoping no one came to the door in the two minutes that I was gone. This got me into ALOT of trouble and I quit the job after a short while but I did get a bladder infection and urinary retention. This was 2-3 years ago but I still feel the after effects today. Like peeing every time I sneeze or laugh đ©
Dude....oh my God! That sounds like it should be illegal!
Lets debate biology.
I feel like a lot of abortion debates are becoming based on feelings, emotions, and subjective morality. Iâm not looking for an ugly knock out drag out debate, i just want to discuss hard facts about abortion and see where this goes.Â
Okay here are the hard facts about abortions:
The fetus, at any time before 35 weeks gestation does not have the capacity to differentiate between âpainful touchâ and âpleasant touchâ. Even at 24 weeks, it doesnât have the part of the brain that registers touch at all, therefore fetuses feel no pain whatsoever during an abortion. Even during the saline abortions that you falsely claim were âpainfulâ to the fetus on your blog.
The fetus relies fully on the body it is inside of to maintain itâs survival and function, thereby requiring that persons continuous consent to remain there, as the right to security of person was deemed more important that a right to life as seen in the supreme court cases in the USA of Roe V. Wade and McFall V. Shimp (In Canada the two cases that did this were Morgentaler, Smoling, and Scott v. Queen and Daigle V. Trembley).
The fetus does not have the capacity for conscious, purposeful, or controlled movement. All movement that a fetus makes is fully involuntary, and happen as a result of the nervous system forming, testing itself out, and testing limb movement in order to ensure everything is in place to ensure survival capability after birth -assuming it survives the pregnancy and birth. In fact, the first sparks of consciousness in homo sapiens happens at 5 months AFTER birth.
In places where abortions are legal and easily accessible, there are lower abortion rates. In places where abortions are illegal or heavily restricted there are more abortions. This is an across-board thing, a global pattern.
Lack of safe abortion access KILLS. An estimated 68,000Â people per year die because of lack of access to safe abortions, and a uncounted millions are left with permanent health issues as a result. Thatâs an estimated 186 people who will die TODAY because they did not have safe access to an abortion. There are an estimated 19 million unsafe and illegal abortions performed annually.
Most abortions are NOT performed on teenagers who were sleeping around and did not use protection. The largest groups recieving abortions are ages 20-24 (33% of all abortions), non-hispanic white (36%), religious(37% identify as protestant and 28% identify as catholic, meaning over half of abortion recipients follow a sect of Christianity) , married or cohabiting (55%), have one or more children (61%), used protection (51%) and are below the poverty line (42% are 100% below the poverty line, and a further 27% are 100-199% below the poverty line. 69% of abortion recipients are below the poverty line). (source)
Abortion has no severe, long term effects on people who get them. There is no increase to breast cancer risks, there is no increased risk to ectopic pregnancies, there is not increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, there is no Post-Abortion Syndrome, there is no increased risk of abruptio placentae.
And finally there is the fact that organs, does not a person make. Most things on this planet have organs. Birds have organs, bees have organs, dogs, lions, bears, pigs, cows, and even individual cells have organs or organ-like components that keep them alive. The fetuses development level does not grant it rights because that is not how we grant rights.
Those are the cold, hard facts on abortion. Those are the facts pro choicers have presented a thousand times to you and countless other pro lifers like you. Those are the facts that your group has ignored over and over again in favour of proven misinformation. I have no doubt there will be no response to this, and if there is you will give me lifenews or some other equally biased site as a âsourceâ, despite my giving you only unbiased ones. If you want to discuss the facts on abortion you canât use websites that are based in lies.
Anyone who tells me women shouldnât have access to safe abortions can get drop-kicked in the face. You donât have to agree with someoneâs choice - respect it, stay quiet, and move on. Did it personally effect your quality of life? I hardly doubt it. Itâs 2018 people. Wake the fuck up.
Okay, I hate to get apart of these discussions, but I gotta talk here.
Iâm an abortion survivor.
At the first (maybe second?) Ultrasound, the doctors pulled my parents aside and said that I was a trouble baby, that there was an 80% chance that I would have several crippling diseases, that there was a chance that I wouldnât live past my first year, that the birth would probably be painful and dangerous for my mom, who was already nearly too old to have children and had already had two c-sections, drastically increasing her risk of hemorrhaging to death.
The doctors recommended abortion. Strongly.
Iâm sure you can guess what my mom said.
No.
She didnât care that I would never know. She didnât care that she might die. She didnât care that she might only have me for a year. She didnât care that I might not be the happy, healthy child that she had hoped for.
She didnât care.
Cuz my momâs the most selfless person I know.
And guess what?
I was fine.
Yeah, I have neck and back problems and CM and MVA and a crap ton of other problems, but I still thank my mom every kriffing day for not aborting me. Because she decided to risk her life instead of having a âsafeâ abortion, I graduated at the age of 15, scored in the 95th percentile of my state, won a full ride scholarship to college, am a sophomore student with honors, and I just got an invitation for an internship in NYC.
Call me proud, bragging, boastful, privileged, or any other shitty words, but until you can convince me that maybe I shouldnât have existed, you can kiss my ass.
And look, @iidigestive-readerii , I donât want there to be a quarrel between us. Even friends can have their differences, but I want the differencesâand the reasons why they existâto be clear.
Your mother had that option. She had the option to make a choice. The doctors presented her with the facts of her pregnancy, and she did what she thought was best. Thatâs what pro-choice people want- for people to be able to make a choice about their pregnancy.Â
Your existence is not an argument for making abortions illegal or for their immorality- if anything, your existence is an argument for informed choices, for prenatal screening, and for strong support systems that help both mother and baby. If your mom didnât have access to prenatal screenings, if your mom didnât have those options, do you think she would have been as informed about the potential challenges of raising you? Knowing and accepting the risks means you get to prepare for them. You get to make yourself mentally ready for possible challenges, and they donât surprise you when they pop up after birth. Donât you think that robust prenatal and postnatal healthcare and support made it easier to give birth with all these potential problems? Without the option to legally and safely abort, prenatal screenings are much less useful- and it sounds like your mom was in a pretty good situation to begin with, other than you being a risky pregnancy. And thatâs what you were, a risky pregnancy. You are not an abortion survivor. If your mother had gone through an abortion procedure and Fetal You had survived, youâd be an abortion survivor, but your mom chose to carry you to term. That makes you a successful pregnancy. That makes you her baby. But an abortion survivor? Nah.
Nobodyâs saying âyou shouldnât exist.â Even youâre just saying that your mother had the option to abort and didnât. Does that make the option a bad one? No. Being pro-choice is about the choice itself. Not everybodyâs as lucky as your mother- from just the snippet of story up there, itâs pretty obvious that she had a strong support system (your father) and was receiving regular medical care. Thatâs not the case for a lot of women.Â
Also: anecdotes arenât data. Your story is anecdotal, a best-case scenario. Your story is the story of a woman who clearly had access to medical care and support, and who was part of a family that supported her decision as well. But your story doesnât contradict the facts or even provide strong evidence that abortion is immoral or should be illegal- it just shows that in one very specific case, a womanâs choice not to abort turned out really well for the child (and Iâm assuming your mother, I bet sheâs very happy with you- youâre obviously really accomplished and I bet she loves you a lot).
But itâs not an argument against abortion.Â
Which is why it doesnât matter about fetuses feeling pain. What matters is that they are members of the homo sapiens species and their life is equal to that of the larger homo sapiens that they reside in. Ending the life of a homo sapiens at the beginning of her natural life cycle is an atrocity called murder. All members of the homo sapiens species are afforded equal rights no matter their size, ability, or level of development.
No homo sapien has the right to use another personâs body with the consent of the body they are using.
If everyoneâs rights are equal, then the fetus can still be removed if the pregnant person doesnât want them there. Because there is no right to another personâs body nor is it part of an existing right.
No ongoing consent, no one can be there fetus or otherwise.
By that same logic, what right do we have to create another human being? We cannot solicit the consent of the unborn, so what right gives us the authority to create simply because we are able?
And this is a big part of the argument that I think a lot of people are missing.
We want to go by strictly facts? Fine. The fact is youâre ending a life. Youâre still killing something that is alive. Regardless of whether it can feel pain or not, that is enough for a lot people.
A lot of pro-choicers tend to look down on pro-lifers claiming their thinking is based on ignorance or patriarchal thoughts or as this posts suggests, just not looking at the âfactsâ. But a life ending is a fact in this.
And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am 100% pro-choice. I simply bring up this point to offer a different view and to make us pump the breaks on being overly hostile towards someone who is pro-life. Itâs hard to have this conversation without feelings getting involved because people are going to have different opinions based on said facts. No matter how you slice it, this conversation is always going to come down to a matter of personal morality. And we canât even use the argument that âyou should ignore what people do because no one is getting hurtâ because, again to a lot of people, someoneâs life ending is âsomeone getting hurtâ.
Again, not trying support pro-life (for a myriad of reasons, the overall physical and mental health of the mother being a big one); just wanted to throw this in there. (This is supposed to be a debate, afterall.)
Again though, consent. The consent of the mother is more important the right to live. (I probably worded that totally wrong so correct me if I did please.)
But, that's also subjective. Also, I'm not sure consent can really apply to this topic? (Put a question mark because I'm actually questioning it, btw. Not to be passive-aggresive.)
First, I was shocked and appalled by the prices of the necklaces. But then I saw that people were jeopardising their finacial situations for them. But this happens all the time in mainstream retail too. Black Friday, anyone? It says more about western consumerist culture than it does about Emilie or the people buying them.
Iâm so sick of people complaining about her prices like this isnât something every musician does. You go to a concert, a t-shirt with a name on it is 40 bucks. A hoodie is fucking 80 bucks. And unlike EAâs stuff which is HANDMADE, most bands/musicians have their stuff mass produced.Â
Hate to break it to everyone, but musicians and artists DONâT make as much money as you think they, especially undergound one. Especially in this day and age where any and everything can be and is pirated. They canât rely on record sells to get by anymore. Their money is made from concerts and merch.Â
Do I wish the prices were more affordable? Of course I do, but high prices doesnât automatically mean a scam. Buying something from an established artist is akin to buying brand named clothing. Youâre paying for the name more than the actual quality of the product.Â
Furthermore, youâre supporting your favorite artist. Youâre not so much buying a product as buying âa work by [X] artistâ.
Annoying money grab aside, but sheâs been releasing so many necklaces at this point they no longer excite at all. She doesnât understand what âLimited edition meansâ. Sheâs releasing so many the same time itâs not even funny anymore. And each one of them is âlimited edition and very specialâ, of course. I can barely keep up with her new releases.
Apparently YOU donât understand what limited edition means. Unless every single necklace is in the exact same style, she can put out as many different styles as she wants is still limited edition because itâs limited in its making.
âMoney grabbingâ well fuck her for being productive.
Seriously...
And when she wasnât putting everything out, everyone was bitching about her not being productive, and now that she has a lot coming out, people are bitching about her being TOO productive and accusing her of âmoney grabbingâ. Jesus people. Pick a side. Either you want stuff from her or you donât...
At this point Tumblr is just a nazi, pedophile, and a misogynist in a trench coat
Not even in a trenchcoat. Just bare ass naked and proud.
You foolsâŠ.. you absolute BuffoonsâŠâŠâŠ.. there is only one place we can turn to in these dark timesâŠâŠ.. we must return to the land of our beginningsâŠ. our youthâŠâŠ.
Lol fun idea, but real talk, Gaia is likely 10x worse. They are even more strict with adult content. I remember a picture in my signature getting blocked just because it was from DeviantArt. Also, if I'm not mistaken they censor words too.
My friends and I use it for our RP (though, we recently moved to Discord).
friendly reminder that Tumblr Staff has all the resources and time to do elaborate trivial web coding for this website during April Foolâs but never did shit to remove cp in this website, ban nazis, and clean the porn bots. meanwhile, they are punishing most of its userbase by banning all adult-related content using a flawed âautomatedâ system or machine to do it. as a result, non-nsfw blogs got terminated wrongfully, and even non-nsfw content are getting flagged and blocked. ladies and gentlemen, this is how staff doesnât give a damn about its user-base and how this website is so broken
I still agree with this. Work in progress. They will improve the bot. Sad non-nsfw accounts were removed though. But good for Tumblr, theyâre going PG now.
Is it good though?
One of Tumblrâs appeals (I dare say itâs main selling point) was that it was (and I HATE using this phrase) a safe space for ADULTS.
I donât just mean sex workers. Fans who create adult fan works. Artists who create (and rely on revenue for) adult artworks. Hell, even jokes and memes. It was a place where an adult could be an adult freely without worrying about constantly having to walk on glass and censor themselves, and it worked fine. (And I put this emphasis on it being adult because it was rated for adults in the app stores.)
This is about Tumblr wanting to be âfamily friendlyâ or whatever bullshit. This is Tumblr trying to damage control about a problem itâs community has been asking them to fix for a VERY long time. But they turned a deaf ear to it. But, it finally came back and bit them in the ass and affected their money and THATâS when they decided to care.
But, of course, instead of actually fixing the problem, they decided to say âfuck youâ to the people who basically made the site relevantâŠ.to the very people who tried their all to get the problem fixed in the first place.
Well, if you were a small company backed into a corner and couldnât handle managing millions of posts. What would you do? Sure it sucks, but if theyâre not on the app store whatâs the point? They arenât getting revenue from ads when porn is by it. Whatâs the point? Itâs a business at the emd of the day. Sucks that things like this happen, but what can you do? Right, explore alternatives maybe?
Verizon is not a "small business", dude. :/
And again, they had the resources to fix the problem that they were banned from the app store for. The entirety of Tumblr has been screaming at them to do something about it for at least a full year now, and they've ignored it.
And furthermore, after the initial Tumblr "purge" that happened a few weeks ago, they freaking SOLVED THE PROBLEM that the app store removed them for. So, this move is unnecessary and a slap in the face to an extremely large amount of the users who put this website on the map. (Yahoo! and Verizon didn't just up and decide to buy this website. They did so because of how popular it was.)
It's shitty business and personal ethics on Verizon's part, and that's why people are pissed.
friendly reminder that Tumblr Staff has all the resources and time to do elaborate trivial web coding for this website during April Foolâs but never did shit to remove cp in this website, ban nazis, and clean the porn bots. meanwhile, they are punishing most of its userbase by banning all adult-related content using a flawed âautomatedâ system or machine to do it. as a result, non-nsfw blogs got terminated wrongfully, and even non-nsfw content are getting flagged and blocked. ladies and gentlemen, this is how staff doesnât give a damn about its user-base and how this website is so broken
I still agree with this. Work in progress. They will improve the bot. Sad non-nsfw accounts were removed though. But good for Tumblr, theyâre going PG now.
Is it good though?
One of Tumblr's appeals (I dare say it's main selling point) was that it was (and I HATE using this phrase) a safe space for ADULTS.
I don't just mean sex workers. Fans who create adult fan works. Artists who create (and rely on revenue for) adult artworks. Hell, even jokes and memes. It was a place where an adult could be an adult freely without worrying about constantly having to walk on glass and censor themselves, and it worked fine. (And I put this emphasis on it being adult because it was rated for adults in the app stores.)
This is about Tumblr wanting to be "family friendly" or whatever bullshit. This is Tumblr trying to damage control about a problem it's community has been asking them to fix for a VERY long time. But they turned a deaf ear to it. But, it finally came back and bit them in the ass and affected their money and THAT'S when they decided to care.
But, of course, instead of actually fixing the problem, they decided to say "fuck you" to the people who basically made the site relevant....to the very people who tried their all to get the problem fixed in the first place.
Lets debate biology.
I feel like a lot of abortion debates are becoming based on feelings, emotions, and subjective morality. Iâm not looking for an ugly knock out drag out debate, i just want to discuss hard facts about abortion and see where this goes.Â
Okay here are the hard facts about abortions:
The fetus, at any time before 35 weeks gestation does not have the capacity to differentiate between âpainful touchâ and âpleasant touchâ. Even at 24 weeks, it doesnât have the part of the brain that registers touch at all, therefore fetuses feel no pain whatsoever during an abortion. Even during the saline abortions that you falsely claim were âpainfulâ to the fetus on your blog.
The fetus relies fully on the body it is inside of to maintain itâs survival and function, thereby requiring that persons continuous consent to remain there, as the right to security of person was deemed more important that a right to life as seen in the supreme court cases in the USA of Roe V. Wade and McFall V. Shimp (In Canada the two cases that did this were Morgentaler, Smoling, and Scott v. Queen and Daigle V. Trembley).
The fetus does not have the capacity for conscious, purposeful, or controlled movement. All movement that a fetus makes is fully involuntary, and happen as a result of the nervous system forming, testing itself out, and testing limb movement in order to ensure everything is in place to ensure survival capability after birth -assuming it survives the pregnancy and birth. In fact, the first sparks of consciousness in homo sapiens happens at 5 months AFTER birth.
In places where abortions are legal and easily accessible, there are lower abortion rates. In places where abortions are illegal or heavily restricted there are more abortions. This is an across-board thing, a global pattern.
Lack of safe abortion access KILLS. An estimated 68,000Â people per year die because of lack of access to safe abortions, and a uncounted millions are left with permanent health issues as a result. Thatâs an estimated 186 people who will die TODAY because they did not have safe access to an abortion. There are an estimated 19 million unsafe and illegal abortions performed annually.
Most abortions are NOT performed on teenagers who were sleeping around and did not use protection. The largest groups recieving abortions are ages 20-24 (33% of all abortions), non-hispanic white (36%), religious(37% identify as protestant and 28% identify as catholic, meaning over half of abortion recipients follow a sect of Christianity) , married or cohabiting (55%), have one or more children (61%), used protection (51%) and are below the poverty line (42% are 100% below the poverty line, and a further 27% are 100-199% below the poverty line. 69% of abortion recipients are below the poverty line). (source)
Abortion has no severe, long term effects on people who get them. There is no increase to breast cancer risks, there is no increased risk to ectopic pregnancies, there is not increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, there is no Post-Abortion Syndrome, there is no increased risk of abruptio placentae.
And finally there is the fact that organs, does not a person make. Most things on this planet have organs. Birds have organs, bees have organs, dogs, lions, bears, pigs, cows, and even individual cells have organs or organ-like components that keep them alive. The fetuses development level does not grant it rights because that is not how we grant rights.
Those are the cold, hard facts on abortion. Those are the facts pro choicers have presented a thousand times to you and countless other pro lifers like you. Those are the facts that your group has ignored over and over again in favour of proven misinformation. I have no doubt there will be no response to this, and if there is you will give me lifenews or some other equally biased site as a âsourceâ, despite my giving you only unbiased ones. If you want to discuss the facts on abortion you canât use websites that are based in lies.
Anyone who tells me women shouldnât have access to safe abortions can get drop-kicked in the face. You donât have to agree with someoneâs choice - respect it, stay quiet, and move on. Did it personally effect your quality of life? I hardly doubt it. Itâs 2018 people. Wake the fuck up.
Okay, I hate to get apart of these discussions, but I gotta talk here.
Iâm an abortion survivor.
At the first (maybe second?) Ultrasound, the doctors pulled my parents aside and said that I was a trouble baby, that there was an 80% chance that I would have several crippling diseases, that there was a chance that I wouldnât live past my first year, that the birth would probably be painful and dangerous for my mom, who was already nearly too old to have children and had already had two c-sections, drastically increasing her risk of hemorrhaging to death.
The doctors recommended abortion. Strongly.
Iâm sure you can guess what my mom said.
No.
She didnât care that I would never know. She didnât care that she might die. She didnât care that she might only have me for a year. She didnât care that I might not be the happy, healthy child that she had hoped for.
She didnât care.
Cuz my momâs the most selfless person I know.
And guess what?
I was fine.
Yeah, I have neck and back problems and CM and MVA and a crap ton of other problems, but I still thank my mom every kriffing day for not aborting me. Because she decided to risk her life instead of having a âsafeâ abortion, I graduated at the age of 15, scored in the 95th percentile of my state, won a full ride scholarship to college, am a sophomore student with honors, and I just got an invitation for an internship in NYC.
Call me proud, bragging, boastful, privileged, or any other shitty words, but until you can convince me that maybe I shouldnât have existed, you can kiss my ass.
And look, @iidigestive-readerii , I donât want there to be a quarrel between us. Even friends can have their differences, but I want the differencesâand the reasons why they existâto be clear.
Your mother had that option. She had the option to make a choice. The doctors presented her with the facts of her pregnancy, and she did what she thought was best. Thatâs what pro-choice people want- for people to be able to make a choice about their pregnancy.Â
Your existence is not an argument for making abortions illegal or for their immorality- if anything, your existence is an argument for informed choices, for prenatal screening, and for strong support systems that help both mother and baby. If your mom didnât have access to prenatal screenings, if your mom didnât have those options, do you think she would have been as informed about the potential challenges of raising you? Knowing and accepting the risks means you get to prepare for them. You get to make yourself mentally ready for possible challenges, and they donât surprise you when they pop up after birth. Donât you think that robust prenatal and postnatal healthcare and support made it easier to give birth with all these potential problems? Without the option to legally and safely abort, prenatal screenings are much less useful- and it sounds like your mom was in a pretty good situation to begin with, other than you being a risky pregnancy. And thatâs what you were, a risky pregnancy. You are not an abortion survivor. If your mother had gone through an abortion procedure and Fetal You had survived, youâd be an abortion survivor, but your mom chose to carry you to term. That makes you a successful pregnancy. That makes you her baby. But an abortion survivor? Nah.
Nobodyâs saying âyou shouldnât exist.â Even youâre just saying that your mother had the option to abort and didnât. Does that make the option a bad one? No. Being pro-choice is about the choice itself. Not everybodyâs as lucky as your mother- from just the snippet of story up there, itâs pretty obvious that she had a strong support system (your father) and was receiving regular medical care. Thatâs not the case for a lot of women.Â
Also: anecdotes arenât data. Your story is anecdotal, a best-case scenario. Your story is the story of a woman who clearly had access to medical care and support, and who was part of a family that supported her decision as well. But your story doesnât contradict the facts or even provide strong evidence that abortion is immoral or should be illegal- it just shows that in one very specific case, a womanâs choice not to abort turned out really well for the child (and Iâm assuming your mother, I bet sheâs very happy with you- youâre obviously really accomplished and I bet she loves you a lot).
But itâs not an argument against abortion.Â
Which is why it doesnât matter about fetuses feeling pain. What matters is that they are members of the homo sapiens species and their life is equal to that of the larger homo sapiens that they reside in. Ending the life of a homo sapiens at the beginning of her natural life cycle is an atrocity called murder. All members of the homo sapiens species are afforded equal rights no matter their size, ability, or level of development.
No homo sapien has the right to use another personâs body with the consent of the body they are using.
If everyoneâs rights are equal, then the fetus can still be removed if the pregnant person doesnât want them there. Because there is no right to another personâs body nor is it part of an existing right.
No ongoing consent, no one can be there fetus or otherwise.
By that same logic, what right do we have to create another human being? We cannot solicit the consent of the unborn, so what right gives us the authority to create simply because we are able?
And this is a big part of the argument that I think a lot of people are missing.
We want to go by strictly facts? Fine. The fact is you're ending a life. You're still killing something that is alive. Regardless of whether it can feel pain or not, that is enough for a lot people.
A lot of pro-choicers tend to look down on pro-lifers claiming their thinking is based on ignorance or patriarchal thoughts or as this posts suggests, just not looking at the "facts". But a life ending is a fact in this.
And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am 100% pro-choice. I simply bring up this point to offer a different view and to make us pump the breaks on being overly hostile towards someone who is pro-life. It's hard to have this conversation without feelings getting involved because people are going to have different opinions based on said facts. No matter how you slice it, this conversation is always going to come down to a matter of personal morality. And we can't even use the argument that "you should ignore what people do because no one is getting hurt" because, again to a lot of people, someone's life ending is "someone getting hurt".
Again, not trying support pro-life (for a myriad of reasons, the overall physical and mental health of the mother being a big one); just wanted to throw this in there. (This is supposed to be a debate, afterall.)