“Abortion protects my right to consent”
Okay, let’s just get one thing clear before I dive into this. Consent to sex is important. Nay - fundamental. No one wants you to be raped or forced to get pregnant, and no one is denying that you are the owner of your body. Period. End of story. No ifs ands or buts.
On the topic of “continual consent” in regards to a pregnancy, allow me to use an analogy.
If you grab a rope and hold it for somebody while they rappel down a cliff, you can't just let it go and let them fall before they get to the bottom. Despite the fact that you are choosing to using your body and your strength for their benefit- if you withdraw then you have committed an act of murder. You have killed them. If you made a decision or performed an action that caused someone’s life to become dependent on yours, it’s not only unthinkably selfish to “withdraw consent” while this person depends on you; in the case of abortion, it is murder. (Yes I used the word murder. Killing your child is murder regardless of the fact that it’s legal. Don’t be pedantic, it’s childish.) By taking part in a reproductive activity you have to acknowledge that reproduction might occur. This process is not a disease, and it’s not something gone wrong. It’s the correct function of sex and the reproductive system. At that point someone else’s life attached to yours because of circumstances outside of their control, but completely within your own. You’re holding the rope. No one wants to force you to pick up a rope, but once you’re holding it, you’re holding it. We should be willing to support you holding it, to help, to make it easier, and to defend you from discrimination or attack from people who want you to stop holding the rope. But letting go after you’ve chosen to pick it up is wrong.
Which brings us to “abortion is healthcare.”
The first error in this statement is treating pregnancy as if it is a health concern or abnormality. It is not. Pregnancy is a perfectly normal and correct biological function of women, to produce offspring.
Because a woman’s body is affected (sometimes negatively) by being pregnant, preventing or limiting those effects would be healthcare. Healthcare during pregnancy would be ultrasounds to make sure mama and baby are okay, and preventative measures to make sure nothing goes wrong for either of them. In extreme situations, healthcare might mean emergency surgery to attempt to save one or both lives. Health care is never abortion. (If one more person brings up ectopic pregnancies istg… not a single prolifer is arguing that those should be allowed to kill the mother.)
Calling abortion healthcare is funtementally twisted. It’s not healthcare the same was murdering a person who causes you mental or emotion problems isn’t mental health care. The true purpose of a healthcare provider is to protect the life and health of ALL of their patients, to do no harm, and not to play God in taking life. (Detailed here * and here *) Caring for your health should never involve actively, intentionally, maliciously destroying the existence of a smaller weaker human being. That is the height of exploitation and oppression.
Furthermore,
Over a thousand OB-GYNs and maternal healthcare experts joined together to affirm this reality in the Dublin Declaration, which states: “As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynecology, we affirm that direct abortion – the purposeful destruction of the unborn child -- is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman. We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion, and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child. We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.”
This is how the so-called “healthcare” procedure takes place. The living human will slowly bleed to death as it is torn limb from limb. It can, however, survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off. . . The process is not quick, and it is not painless according to a new study published a month ago by people on both sides of the abortion debate that shows evidence of the unborn feeling pain from at least 12 weeks gestation.
“Overall, the evidence, and a balanced reading of that evidence, points towards an immediate and unreflective pain experience mediated by the developing function of the nervous system from as early as 12 weeks.”
At the end of the abortion, after the larger pieces of the child have been torn off with forceps and the remaining pieces sucked out with a vacuum, the abortionist is left with a tray containing a dismembered human corpse.
Some people advocate for using it as population control. Again, the height of exploitation and oppression.
The concept of intentionally exterminating the weak, sick, poor, needy, and/or underdeveloped for the supposed greater good is similarly unthinkable and undeniably holocaustic. It’s dehumanizing to the human fetus, and to every underprivileged person on the planet. Killing a human, ANY human, based on their quality of life, is not an acceptable form of population control and takes focus away from actually solving the issues that cause suffering on our planet. I say this as a poor, disabled, sexual and physical abuse survivor. My life is still worth living, stop using me and mine to justify grotesque acts of violence against the youngest and weakest members of society.
Additionally, what people may not realize is that sex trafficking victims are often coerced into abortions by the trafficker so that he or she can continue to make a profit off of them. A ground-breaking study by the Beazley Institute found 66 human-trafficking survivors had a total of 114 abortions — 114 abortions among 66 women. One sex-trafficking survivor described her experience:
“Over the years I had pimps and customers who hit me, punched me, kicked me, beat me, slashed me with a razor. I had forced unprotected sex and got pregnant three times and had two abortions at [a clinic]. Afterward, I was back out on the street again.”
The prevalence of forced abortions is an especially disturbing trend in sex trafficking."- Laura J. Lederer, the Senior Adviser on Trafficking for the US State Department
Abortion is profoundly anti-woman as it enables men to use our bodies as sex objects without any reverence for their reproductive capabilities or responsibility to any new life their actions create. Men aren’t required to take responsibility for their children, and this reduces women from life-givers, to sex dolls. The previously quoted survivor of six abortions incurred severe infections from the scar tissue, necessitating a hysterectomy. She could no longer bear children if she wanted. Abortion is, at its best, 100% not safe for at least one unwilling participant. At its worst, these are the possible complications for the most common form of abortion.
* Incomplete abortion which may necessitate a surgical abortion
* Infection of the uterus
* Excessive bleeding
* Torn cervix
* Infection of Fallopian tubes
* Punctured uterus
* Blood clots in the uterus
* Reaction to anesthesia
* Infertility
The figure above shows the age-adjusted relative risk of death in the year following a birth, miscarriage, or abortion compared to the rate of death among women not pregnant. The results are from a multi-year study of all women in Finland, linking death certificates to central registries for pregnancy outcomes. It clearly shows abortion is associated with an elevated risk of death, while carrying to term is associated with a lowered risk of death.
Many people claim that the fetus, though inarguably a human, cannot be considered a person due to its lack of cognitive or physical ability. This begs the question, at what point in does a born human cease to be a considered person based on physical or mental disabilities. Will we kill the born disabled much as we will the preborn disabled? Does someones physical or mental powers really impact their worth as a member of the human species? Is it not enough to be a living and also to be human?
Newborn with spina bifida born alive after failed abortion attempt dies in his mothers arms. Medics refused to help the baby after he was born alive despite a lethal abortion injection having been administered. <- this is the heartlessness of abortion culture.
And here's a state government website that describes all the different abortion procedures if you can stomach them. Abortion is not pretty. It’s not healthcare. It’s not “a woman’s right” it is ugly because it is the death of a human being.
Now for the "clump of cells" argument. In some cases at least, I think perhaps it comes from people seeing miscarried tissue and confusing the whole thing for the baby when it's actually the gestational sac and some surrounding tissue and the baby isn't identifiable in some cases.
On “self defense.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/children-conceived-in-rape-take-a-beating-from-bush-and-christie-at-gop-deb
'An act of self-defense?!' This is the kind of rhetoric you hear from abortion rights advocates.
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/abortion-is-the-dismembering-of-a-living-child-supreme-court-justice-says.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/abortion-is-never-medically-necessary%3f_amp=true
