THE HEARTBEAT BILL
Here's my stance on Abortion in light of the unsettling news that Georgia criminalized abortion with the heartbeat bill! PLEASE READ OBJECTIVELY!
To bring some understanding on where my stance comes from I will be referencing the sexual abuse and rape I endured as a child, which is a daunting idea in of itself. I can't remember exactly when this abuse began at the time but I didn't know what sex was yet or what was happening. However, at home when the parents and adults were away, a relative I loved would touch me and bring me alone to a room or take me to the store for “treats” to get us alone. I remember keeping the focus on the tattered fabric of the car ceiling during the events. This carries on for years when he visits. I get older and around the age of 8 yrs old I began to understand the concept of sex and I start to realize that he's not supposed to be doing this. I also learn around this time, sex creates babies.
I start fighting and resisting back against the events because I didn't want a baby. I'm just a child. Now I didn't understand the process of the conception of a child so in the mind of an 8 year old, I was always worried I would wake up pregnant. Even though at that age it's nearly impossible to conceive, but I didn't know that and I would think to myself. If I become pregnant I will kill myself. These become the first troubling thoughts I have in my life. I am more willing to put up with sexual abuse than the thought of having a child. At this age, I didn't know there was such a thing as an abortion
Fast Forward. I'm twelve years old now. I understand what is needed to actually conceive a child. He is over visiting and touching me again. I have started puberty and I know my body can physically conceive a child. I say to myself again. I’ll kill myself if I get pregnant. I now know abortion is a thing but because of guilt I rather kill myself first. And I plead him to stop because I can actually conceive now. Thankfully there was nowhere to be alone and that was the last time I saw him.
Now I don't want y'all to think this is my stance for in the case of rape or minors conceiving a child. But I am Pro-choice in ALL cases. The mindset of feeling that dread of not wanting to have a child does not change from circumstances for which that child was conceived. No one should have to feel that, everyone should have a chance out. Even if its the most promiscuous of women out there. That feeling of being more willing to go through sexual abuse or end my life than dealing with the consequences resulting from it, that I had as a child, does not change. And I know what you're thinking. What about adoption? The argument is to have control over our bodies and choose for ourselves. Even if that choice supersedes that of a fetus that has yet to begin life. It is easy to empathize with situations such as rape. However, people are too dense to understand you don't have to be raped to feel like you have no control over your body.
I don't like the idea of abortion and would never consider it for myself now as a 20year old female no matter the circumstance. But I also understand what it's like to be on the other end. And it has given me the perspective to why I support Pro-choice.
-rape happens
-broken condoms happen
-irresponsible rendezvous happen
Your option on a way out should not be taken from you.
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