Trigger warning: long post and SCOUS abortion opinion thoughts
Time to scream into the void… aka tumblr. Or way too public way to deal with the internal spiraling after the leak of the Supreme Court draft option overturning roe v wade.
1. I know it is not final… that does not make me more comfortable. It was still drafted. It is an official court document. I never thought I would see women’s rights destroyed in my country. I just saw a document that would make it possible.
2. If the right to bodily autonomy is eroded for women… what happens to others in vulnerable positions. Will being trans become illegal. Cosmetic plastic surgery. Birth control. If you no longer have the right to control your own body, who does?
3. This will also limit the right to privacy. How will this affect Texas v. Lawrence (makes it unconstitutional to make gay sex illegal) or Virginia v loving (makes it unconditional to make interracial marriage illegal). Griswold v. Connecticut (makes it unconstitutional to make birth control illegal). Yes birth control was illegal in some states. The government should not be in my uterus or my bedroom
4. I am a woman who is single and grey ace. The effect won’t hit me has hard as my friends who are sexually active. It still affects my rights. I care. I am straight. I could still be affected. I could be raped.
5. I have the resources to travel and get the procedure elsewhere if needed. Like the woman in the lives of the people making these laws. Not every American has that option. That makes me nauseous. The future of all citizens, not just the wealthy, should matter.
6. It’s my body
7. The Bible literally permits abortion (at least in the case of adultery) Numbers 5:27-28
8. The Bible literally holds the value of a living woman over that of an unborn fetus (Exodus 21:22-25) and they would only know back then once a woman had pregnancy symptoms
9. Most pro-life people point to psalms or Jeremiah which just have to do with god’s omnipotence. He knew me in the womb. Aka he knew me before I existed. Poetry is pretty. Not a reason to turn me into a broodmare (horse kept around to reproduce. An animal with no bodily autonomy. Not a voluntary mom. Those are moms)
10. Other pro-life people just look at passages about spilling innocent blood. News flash you can’t kill that which is not yet alive. No blood spilled.
11. Jewish people say breath of life motif mean life starts at birth aka when the baby breaths.
12. Items 7-11 are irrelevant because of freedom of religion. You cannot make me practice your religious beliefs. Fuck you
13. Child support doesn’t start until birth. Yet giving birth requires a huge financial penalty (Dr. Visits, vitamin, ultrasounds, missed work for Dr, 100ks for actual birth in a hospital, recovery and more missed work). Women bear that responsibility alone. It took two to tango. Where is the man’s responsibility
14. Not to mention the toll of pregnancy and birth on an actually living persons body.
15. Citizenship also doesn’t happen until you are born.
16. Miscarriages are common. Some conservative leaders are drafting laws that would result in a criminal penalty… for nature.
17. If you drive drunk and get into an accident that results in a second person needing a kidney transplant or dying, You would not be required by law to give up your own kidney if you were a match. A drunk accident does not give someone else rights to your body. Even if that person is actually alive. Even if you were at fault.
18. A fetus is not viable until the 3rd trimester. Women are not life support machines. We are people. If the fetus is not human enough or formed enough to exist, why force it.
19. I would not want to be kept on life support if I lacked higher brain function. Regardless of whether I had a heartbeat or fingernails (F you Juno). In my view a vegetable is not alive. My essence. My soul. What makes me Me is gone. If I would not consider myself alive without that brain function, I do not consider the fetus alive either. While electrical impulses start early, higher brain function occurs at the end of the 2nd trimester or beginning of the 3rd. I think therefore I am - descarte bitches!
20. Per physics, potential motion and actual motion are different. Per the English language potential is not the same as actual. As such, potential life and actual life are different. Let’s protect the actual life.
21. “But you could be killing the next president.” Bitch, it’s not alive so there is no killing. And it might be the next H.H. Holmes. Keep your completely unfounded manipulation away from me. And I will keep the next potential serial killer away from you.
22. This could result in so many women stuck in abusive households.
23. The economy better improve. Because almost all millennials are in 2 income households. If you expect women to be 1950 housewives, our men better be able to take care of the entire household on a single salary. Oh wait. They can’t.
24. If you were a fertility clinic that was on fire and you could either save (a) an unconscious, living person with a broken leg, or (b) a small two handled refrigerator with 1000000000000000000000000 fertilized eggs (or more), which do you save? I’m saving the person. Fertilized eggs are not the same as people. End of story.
25. Babies born into dangerous situations is a bad thing. Such situations could include poverty, abusive household, unloving mother, etc. Why don’t we fix the current education, healthcare, foster care, etc. systems first. Rather that put people and babies at risk
26. Children are expensive. Especially, if you want to give them everything they need to succeed (more easily) - like education. Some people want to wait until they are ready. Some know they can’t provide what they would like to.
27. To all my “social liberal, financially conservative” peeps…. Guess you should have voted for your rights and not your pocketbook.
28. People who says it’s the woman’s fault because she shouldn’t be having sex. (A) again takes two to tango. (B) sounds like you are interested in regulating and controlling women than anything else
29. Women are usually only fertile around 2 days a month and then only from our teens until middle age. Men a fertile from puberty until death, every day of the year and can get multiple people pregnant in a day. If you wanted to stop abortion you would go for them. Especially, vasectomies are reversible. Instead you punish woman.
30. To dates in the Bible Belt passed heartbeat bills - Strange how you don’t care about ensuring decent sex ed in schools to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place
31. I’m pro choice. Because the only other option is anti-choice. Is force. Is wrong.
