#abotion

[moon-and-fries]

you should read the handmaids tale, it might give you a different perspective on abortion.

also as a survivor of molestation and incest, would you let 6 year old me die in childbirth and force me to carry a child that was made from rape and incest?

if i ever got pregnant and had to give birth, I would die because my body is not big enough plus other health issues. How is it pro life to force a mother to die, just to leave a baby orphaned IF the baby lives.

frankly, I would rather let a woman have an abortion then leave another child in the foster care system also.

i encourage you to do more research on these topics, and form your own opinion. abortions are life saving, and I hope you can at least agree on the fact they should be legal. i apologize if this seems like an attack, as I do not mean it that way. i am just sharing my personal experiences to show you the other side of this conversation. 

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Ok I originally wasn't going to answer this, because I don't wanna be attacked my my mutuals, but I've decided to fuck it. If we can't have different opinions on a matter then maybe we shouldn't be mutuals. Sorry guys.

I think we can both agree that rape/molestation are absolutely terrible awful things. I am also a victim of both. But that doesn't mean killing a human being is the answer.

And before you say "A fetus is just a clump of cells!" or "It's a parasite!" I am going to say: it is a clump of cells. but so are WE. Everything is made of cells at different stages of life. It may not be as advanced or grown yet, but that doesn't mean it isn't a person.

A parasite is an organism that is not the same species as the host. Newsflash: A baby is the same species as the adult human that is carrying them. So to say that because the child depends on the mother and cannot survive without help it isn't a human being with rights of their own? its sick.

I'm not saying I don't care about the life of the mother, far from it actually. What I am saying is that I value the life of both the mother and the baby, there are ways for both to survive, and resources the mother can use if the reason she wants an abortion is the inability to sustain themself and the child.

And if your body cannot handle carrying a child or you don't have the resources to raise one, DONT have sex. The simplest and most fool proof form of birth control is to just not do it. If it's a risk to both you and another life the best thing to do is avoid it.

I have formed my own opinion. I thought long and hard about the matter. Have you ever seen what they do to aborted babies that are further along? You should. It makes me absolutely sick that someone would do that to a baby.

I saw a post recently that said "We should abolish the death penalty! Serial rapists and child predators and murderers have rights too!" if we do that, then wouldn't we need to abolish abortion too? that's killing a human life. In fact, its killing a human who hasn't done anything other than simply exist :)

I cant force anyone to not have abortions. I cant force people to change their minds. and I'm okay with that. We can all exist with our different opinions. What I am not okay with is being attacked and berated and called names because I think something different. (not saying you did this anon, I'm thinking of some of my mutuals because I KNOW that when I hit post on this I'll get some backlash. and I am, quite frankly, not excited for it. So I'm going to say right now, Mutuals, if we cant have a civil conversation about the topic then go ahead and block me right now. Love you guys :3

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk ^^

[wtfnameisavailable]

HANDS OFF!!!

Get away from me with your mythological gods and your forced theological precepts!

GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!

Women need to wear this on their T-shirts.

Republican men, you can stick in in each other!

YOU'LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT!!!

[wisdomfish]

Sound moral reasoning reveals that the right of the unborn human to live must outweigh the mother’s arbitrary right to take away that life, privately, or otherwise.

Samples, Kenneth Richard. ‘Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions. p. 217

[protoslacker]

It is Women’s History Month and the world is bursting with proclamations of support for gender equality and women’s rights. But too often, the general narrative celebrating historical progress on gender issues leaves out abortion and contraception, sidelining the fact that without them, gender equality would have been – and still is – impossible.

Banchiamlack Dessalegn in Aljazeera. Gender equality isn’t possible without abortion and contraception

Access to reproductive health protects women and girls, uplifts them and allows them to prosper.

Champions4Choice

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans Keep Making Every Single Fight About Abortion

To hear them tell it, House Republicans are solely focused on fiscal...

With Republicans, absolutely EVERYTHING is about abortion. It doesn't matter to them that being fanatically anti-abortion has cost them with voters over the past 13 months.

The GOP reminds me a little of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's alleged comment: Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié.

To hear them tell it, House Republicans are solely focused on fiscal conservatism, on undercutting the appropriations levels agreed to in the Kevin McCarthy-Joe Biden debt ceiling law so they can “rein in federal spending.” That’s what they’d like to be fighting about. But their actions, the riders they’ve larded up these bills with, reveal a different priority: an obsession with fighting battles in the culture war, a fixation on extinguishing any semblance of abortion access in particular, no matter the repeatedly demonstrated political radioactivity of the issue post-Dobbs.  The add-ons are less poison pills and more a poison buffet for Democrats, ensuring that these versions of the bills will never see the light of law. They risk cutting House Republicans out of legislative relevance altogether, shifting the onus to the Senate to write bills that can actually pass. They could create a debt ceiling law redux where the legislation ultimately passes on the backs of mostly Democrats plus the Republicans still willing to play ball. Or they could shut down the government. 

A radical activist minority in the party constantly goes out of its way to advertise that the GOP favors very unpopular policies and demonstrates that it is unfit to govern.

One is abortion, the same issue that sent Democrats fleeing from the once-bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act when House Republicans included a provision that would prohibit the Defense Secretary from covering or reimbursing service members’ abortion-related expenses. Democrats told reporters that they’d heard from Republican colleagues expressing vexation that the party kept returning to this losing issue — only to vote for the final product anyway. Abortion restrictions have cropped up in the appropriations process again and again, even in unexpected places. In the bill to fund Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, a rider would largely prevent the VA from implementing a rule that allows the agency to provide access to abortions for pregnant veterans and VA beneficiaries when the health or life of the pregnant woman is at risk, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.   In the Agriculture-Rural Development-FDA funding bill, a GOP rider would reverse the FDA’s late 2021 decision to allow the abortion drug mifepristone to be dispensed in certified pharmacies in addition to traditional health care settings like hospitals and clinics.  In the Homeland Security subcommittee, a rider specifies that no funds earmarked for ICE can be used to pay for an abortion, with very limited exceptions.  And in the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, Republicans targeted abortion both for federal employees and for residents of Washington D.C., which has a home rule system with congressional oversight that allows federal lawmakers to interfere with its local governance. The GOP provisions would both prohibit the use of federal or local funds for nearly all abortion services in D.C., and require that the district report back to the House Republicans that it has followed the congressionally imposed (locally opposed) abortion restrictions. That reporting requirement would mandate that the district detail its compliance with Republicans’ “Partial Birth Abortion Ban,” including “whether the District of Columbia preserved each child’s remains for appropriate examination during the investigation” and “whether the District of Columbia conducted a thorough investigation of the death of each child and what each investigation showed.” 

In addition to that Talleyrand quote, extremist Republicans also remind me of one usually attributed to Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

There are other issues which House Republicans are trying to force feed the country – but abortion stands out above the others.

If Republicans want the 2024 election to be a de facto referendum on abortion, we shouldn't stand in their way.

Last year voters in deep red Kansas overwhelmingly voted down a Republican attempt to remove reproductive freedom protections from the state constitution. Polls around the US regularly show support for reproductive freedom at the 60 percent level.

Every Republican running for office should be made to go on public record stating whether he or she supports a woman's right to choose.

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

[carlytayjepsen]

just searched when abortion was made legal in the us and the first thing to come up was "In 1973, Roe v. Wade made the first abortion case to be taken to the Supreme Court, which had made it federally legal. In 2022, it was overturned" i wasn't even thinking about that being there already this feels like a dystopia wtf

[tehamelie]

Give every member of society a guaranteed standard of living that enables them to single handedly provide a child with such a childhood as you yourself would love to have

-or- 

Permit predatory corporations to take everything they can from people for their own profit, from the seas and the skies of the Earth to the bodies and the minds of the workers, put education and healthcare and home ownership and free time out of reach for almost everyone, and then make it illegal to do anything to prevent pregnancies or to terminate them, and offer $10,000 bounties on women trying to escape pregnancy.

Leaving the whole human rights disaster here aside, which of these could be the most effective way to reduce the amount of abortions in a society?