āMy body, my choiceā only makes sense when someone elseās life isnāt at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood.Ā Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didnāt want to.
See, we have this concept called ābodily autonomy.ā Itās thisā¦.cultural notion that a personās control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.Ā
Like, we canāt even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.Ā
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 canāt even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they arenāt using anymore after they have died.Ā
Youāre asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.Ā
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But, assuming the mother wasnāt raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their ābodily autonomyā is a choice that the mother made. YOu donāt have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isnāt ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.Ā
First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.Ā
And hereās another point: When you say that ārape is the exceptionā 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.Ā
When you say that āRape is the exceptionā what you betray is this: It isnāt about a life. This isnāt about the little soul sitting inside some personās womb, because if it was you wouldnāt care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say ārape is the exceptionā what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but donāt want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their āconsequence.āĀ
And that is gross.Ā
^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!
This is probablyĀ the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

















