#pro life

[thatsprolifeactually]

“Clump of cells”, “parasite”, “tissue”, “tumor”, “products of conception”, etc.

[thatsprolifeactually]

First long post!

For the people asking why pro life people think women need to be punished for sex by experiencing childbirth, firstly, I will not ignore people truly do think that (I am not one of them), and I will preface this by saying that the reason abortion is wrong is because it is a human rights violation of the fetus, not because the woman goes ‘unpunished’ for sex, and then I would like to ask the question:

Why is it perceived as punishment?

Childbirth is uniquely painful and difficult, and it is something primarily women experience. It has been described by people who support abortion as having your genitals ripped apart in front of a room full of strangers as a cruel and unusual act against a woman, in essence, sexism. I have seen childbirth called sexism.

Does it, A. need to be that way, or is that interpretation a modern invention perpetuated by men, and B. how is something completely natural and healthy in the female body, being perceived as innately horrific and violent, not sexist? It is public perception that decides childbirth is more grotesque than a male kidney stone or organ removal surgery, by definition more humiliating or painful than defecating, getting a bone set, and having public sex all at once.

Somehow it has become in many minds, worse than death. Is that alone not a concerning, and searingly sexist? Especially considering the great majority of women are still having births times more painful and longer than they should due to malpractice and misogyny, not by nature of having had sex and gotten pregnant, which in many cases was intentional and wanted, but by men.

The genitals and reproductive organs are a part of the body, not a sacred, blessed chamber cleansed through menstruation. Sexual pleasure is not a human right, being free from physical discomfort or pain at the cost of human life is not a human right, either. Your life, eating, drinking, and breathing is, and giving birth safely, for both parties involved, definitely is. When you stigmatize the healthy bodies of women as punishment or being forced by healthy function, you appease the idea simply being a woman is punishment, when punishment is decided by people in power, not the healthy though painful function of the human body. Ironically, you may perceive or state being alive is punishment, but that is not literally true, it would be a deep contradiction of morality if it was.

What people do decide, is what is visually acceptable and “normal”, and people like to call women mad or freaks for choosing to have children, it’s just “so surreal” of a thing to actually want. As if reproduction and childrearing is a frivolous venture. How could someone freely choose to be ostracized so deeply, when they have not wanted to be so their entire life? When a choice to simply not be is offered freely, totally or nearly totally destigmatized, it becomes socially moral to not subject others to the stigmatized experience, and well as the burden of new humans, even if what you want.

It has bothered me for many years specifically a baby exiting the vagina is nearly always censored in film, even when other, explicit nudity is shown (and do not mistake me, I am deeply uncomfortable looking at genatalia, even diagrams, and have gone faint at the sight of blood more than once), because it is most certainly not sexual nudity, and should not somehow be an obscured mystery to anyone, namely people who have penetrative sex. The baby crowns by spreading the vaginal opening. The muscles are meant to do this, and when coached by people who know what the hell they are doing, tearing is minimal when it happens, and usually reported by people birthing to have gone unnoticed. Severe tearing is abnormal. It is typically a stitch or two, honestly what is more of an ordeal is lochia, and yet that is scarcely talked about.

If you’ve read this and you’re still thinking abortion is a human right, no one can be forced to give birth, I implore you to truly and in good faith read the arguments on secular pro life, if you have not given the full breadth of the position true thought, and if parts of this made you uncomfortable to think about, you should consider it is possible tribalism, repeating verbatim what your peers have said, or propaganda that got you to where you are, not rational scientific or ethic backed reasoning and investigation of your own. If you would expect others (even me) to interrogate their own beliefs in opposition to yours, you should be willing to do the same.

[thatsprolifeactually]

You're part of the reason I got the courage to include a (subtly? not so subtle?) pro life arc in one of my stores. I'll be vague but essentially the mother falls seriously ill, it's a who-should-we-save situation and the answer is both :)

The answer is always both.

You know in one of our favorite films we rewatched recently, Bird Box (spoilers), Mallory is made to decide which of her children (one is adopted from a mother killed by the creatures) should have to look at the rapids of the river to steer the boat to get to their new home.

She never wanted a child to begin with, but she is deeply protective of them now, and cannot bring herself to make that choice, even though it would likely mean her and one of them would have a greater chance of survival.

The child she makes look will likely see the creature and die, but she decides she won’t make anyone look. They will ride the rapids together blind, and survive or die together, because she will not kill either of her kids.

So happy you decided to include an intentional pro life message! I would love to read it if you would dm this account 🫶

[thatsprolifeactually]

The Killjoys from Danger Days: the True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys are pro-life!

They broke away from a strict utilitarian city to live free in the desert as their selves, even with all the difficulties that brought, and they raised a kid not even theirs who ended up saving the world.

Suggested by a friend!

[deaconjohn1987]

Doctors Spent an Hour Reviving a Baby Born Without a Heartbeat

 Doctors Spent an Hour Reviving a Baby B

[cheerfullycatholic]

From xtinabambinaa on Threads

[egginfroggin]

I see the sun in the sky

I feel the feathers on the chickens

I hear the music of the thrushes

I smell the sweetness of butter

I taste refreshing water

I haven't known a day without needles since before I was a teenager

There are bruises on my skin

And lumps in my fat

There is the potential of complications

Heart attacks and strokes

Blindness and neuropathy

My safety is tied to my phone

And wakefulness to constant balance

But still

The chickens crow

My life goes on

The butter melts and the sun shines

And how terrible my life may be to some

But how wonderful

How beautiful

It is to live

And to taste water

And perceive the world in ways that nobody else could

To bake and laugh and cry and sleep

And how sad it would be if I hadn't been born