Category Archives: Abortion
Propaganda For Life
I can not believe I am only just now finding this awesome Tumblr page.
Go there. Now. Do it.
The Problem With Limits to Choice
I was having a conversation with a friend, Savannah, who shared a few “gems” that I wish to write about on this blog. The first one that I am going to write about is the concept of limiting how many abortions a woman can have or should have. My friend told me that even though she is pro-choice, she believes that the tax payer should not be responsible for “paying for a woman’s 45th abortion”. The thing that she doesn’t recognize is the fact that the tax payer doesn’t pay for any abortions (fuck you very much, Hyde Amendment) but she fails to recognize a deeper problem: if we draw limits, who is going to draw the limit and where?
The thing about being pro-choice is recognizing that everyone has the right to choice concerning their bodies. If they have had 45 abortions (honestly, I have never heard of anyone that has had 45 abortions, but I will humour her for the sake of this argument), I believe that she has a right to a 46th abortion. The reason why is because it is her fucking body and she deserves the right to control it as she sees fit. Maybe she does not want/cannot afford the high buy-in for sterilization or IUDs. Perhaps birth control has failed. But no matter what, a woman should have the right to her own body. And there should never be a limit on how many choices a woman can make about her own god damned body.
But I AM In Danger…
I wrote about a visit to a Planned Parenthood in Denver, some time back. I don’t know why, but I was thinking about it again last night and I remembered something that I neglected to talk about before.
“If you were the one in danger of being killed, wouldn’t you want someone to step in and help?”
That’s what one anti, who would just not leave me alone, said to me when I called her out for being a bully, harassing women. At the time, I think, I said something to the effect of “if you really thought that people were being killed in there, I’d like to think that you’d be doing a lot more than just standing around outside, yelling at people.” I wasn’t buying her bullshit for a second.
But it occurred to me last night that I, along with every other woman, actually am , on a regular basis, in danger of being killed. And that, thankfully, there is someone steeping in to help me. This “someone,” however, is not that screaming anti or any of her ilk. No, they’re people who are really endangering my life by being antis and harassing people outside clinics and attacking women’s human rights at every turn – people like that awful woman who followed me that day. Meanwhile, this “someone” stepping in to defend me is actually a whole population of people – the pro-choice movement, and specifically Planned Parenthood itself (and clinics like it.)
I regret now that I did not have the presence of mind, at the time, to say all that. I can only imagine what her stammering, misogynistic excuse would have been. She probably would have dismissed the deaths she’s caused as “suicides,” as was her young protegé’s method of deflecting responsibility and pissing on her victim’s graves.
But it is true. Blocking access to women’s reproductive rights, particularly abortion rights as was the topic of “conversation” (if you can call it that) at the time, kills women. 67-68 thousand every year, according to the World Health Organization’s estimates. And the people responsible for those deaths are the antis. They are the ones killing people. And with the audacity to say things like, “If you were the one in danger of being killed, wouldn’t you want someone to step in and help?”
Fuck you, you anti-choice, anti-life fucks. Only pro-choice can honestly claim to be pro-life.
Thankfully, these monsters aren’t as powerful as they think they are. As was the case here in Colorado last year with amendment 62, Initiative 26 Mississippi failed to strip women of personhood status by robbing us of our rights to prevent or end pregnancies. Make no mistake, that’s what these so-called “personhood amendments” are really about.
