I'm pro-choice! 100%
My message to anti-abortionists (anti-choicers)/pro-lifers
Life doesn't begin at conception. It begins at birth. A fetus is not a human life, so it does not have separate individual rights. The government should keep funding safe and legal abortions and should continue to protect the reproductive rights and bodily autonomy of women. A lot of people are using contraception. Also, just because a few bad apples are having abortions left and right, doesn't mean that the majority of women should be stripped of their right to safe and legal abortions, just because of the mistakes of the minority. Abortion isn't murder. Murder is a crime of violence. Abortion is not a crime. Abortions are safe and legal for women. Abortion is a medical matter, not a criminal one, and should be left to a woman and her doctor.
Moreover, if a woman/couple had sex irresponsibly and conceived a child, why would you want them to participate in parenthood if you know that they are unfit and not responsible/mature enough to be a parent? You are endangering the potential life and if that's the case, I'd rather have the potential life aborted, than for it to be brought into a world of abuse and neglect. Not every parent/potential parent is fit for the job of parenthood. Anti-abortionists/Right-wingers are against things like comprehensive sex ed, contraception, abortions, premarital sex etc. because they hate people having bodily autonomy and people having their reproductive freedom protected by the law, since they don't want people to have sex safely, responsibly and without consequences.
Anti-choicers are some of the most idiotic, hypocritical people out there. It's so disgusting. The pro-life side needs a new title. They can't be pro-life if they are OK with taking away the life of the woman. They can be anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-already born, anti-freedom, or something! Pro-life is not a good word for people who don't actually care about the already living people, only the ones who aren't born. But you suggest adoption over abortion, which is still basically saying "I don't care if you don't want the fetus, carry it to term and put it up for adoption". If you aren't trying to force anyone to do anything then you would be pro-choice, and the adoption idea would have never come up.
Sex is a lot more than an act of procreation. But that doesn't matter. By your logic, one should never be given medical treatment for being in a car wreck, because you KNEW when you got into the car that there was a chance of being in a wreck. Just because a woman knows that there's a chance of her getting pregnant with an act of sex, that doesn't mean she forfeits her right to get medical treatment (i.e., an abortion) for that accident. Just as a person in a car wreck doesn't forfeit their right to get medical treatment.
Until it comes out of her womb, it's a fetus. Once the fetus is out of the womb, then it's a baby. Zygote>Embryo>Fetus>Baby (infant). Life begins at birth and not at conception. That would be like saying a larvae or a cocoon is a butterfly. They both have the potential to be a butterfly, but they aren't a butterfly.
Pro-choice people are the actual pro-lifers. We care about the potential life in addition to existing life. Self -proclaimed "Pro-lifers" don't care about potential or existing life, all they want to do is carry out their own selfish agendas. Their agenda is to take away the reproductive rights (bodily autonomy) of women, which I think is immoral, unethical and disgusting. They are truly pieces of ****.
I can't fathom why any person would be anti-choice, especially if you are a woman (which I'm not obviously). As a guy, I believe that a woman should have the right to choose. Her body= Her choice. Most women want choice. I think all women should want choice. Why would any women want their bodily autonomy/reproductive freedom taken away from them?
Abortion is a CHOICE, it's up to woman, if she wants to keep the fetus or not. In my opinion, men or anyone else should not tell women to keep or not to keep the fetus. Anti-abortion hasn't been about choice... it's been about controlling women. "They (conservatives/right-wingers) are not pro-life. They are anti-woman. Simple as it gets."- George Carlin
Let's face it being pro life is pretty much restricted to the religious community, the fact that you would force a woman to have a child she doesn't want, a child she may not be able to support, a child that may end up in foster care, shows that you don't care about the quality of life of the mother and child.
As a liberal/left-winger, I believe that a person's bodily autonomy/reproductive freedom should be protected, especially when it comes to women. I consider women my equals, and I believe that women should have bodily autonomy/reproductive freedom just like men. To strip women of that right would be unethical, immoral and disgusting. The law is based on the fact that it's her body that has to commit to the whole thing, not his. It's an invasion of bodily autonomy to force a person to lend their bodies to undergoing medical procedures they do not choose to engage in. You can't do that to a man either. The emotional attachment a man might feel for his sperm doesn't get to override her bodily autonomy.
Abortion should be legal for many reasons. 1. Reduce the number of people who didn't come into a good position in the world. 2. It's illogical to force someone to go through massive bodily changes on the behalf of something that might become human. 3. People are allowed to be more productive instead of focusing on childcare that they may not even want. 4. It encourages sexual freedom. 5. It doesn't do any harm to anything. At least not any more than pregnancy.
To sum up anti abortion arguments, it's just people who have been fooled into believing that a piece of flesh in the womb is a human despite having no traits
Fetuses aren't viable until 28 weeks, which is when more than 90% of fetuses can survive outside the womb, provided that they have high-quality medical care. Fetuses born before 37 weeks are preterm and are at higher risk of health problems such as cerebral palsy.
Source: "Pregnancy: Condition Information". http://www.nichd.nih.gov/. December 19, 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
My honest opinion is this
Week 1-27 abortion should be allowed in all circumstances, regardless of the woman's situation
Week 28-36 Emergency abortions (like if giving birth would kill the woman or if the fetus has some type of birth defect that would prevent it from living a fulfilling life once it's born; in other words, if the fetus is dying, malformed (fetal anomalies), or threatening the women's life or health)
I'm a liberal feminist and I support women's rights. I consider women my equals and believe that they should have the same rights as men.
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