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I support abortion.
Anyone getting an abortion.
At any time.
For whatever reason.
No matter how many they’ve had before.
No matter their relationship status, their number of sexual partners, or the number of kids they already have.
I support a person’s right to terminate their pregnancy.
Hi, I'm @inneedofanabortion, and I'm someone who is about to obtain an abortion soon. I'm in desperate need of some moral support, so could any of you direct me to some other abortion-supportive blogs?
I recommend contacting exhale provoice (https://exhaleprovoice.org/) for non-judgemental support, either before or after the termination. http://proudly-pro-choice.tumblr.com/ is a blog that offers support as well, and I have found them to be very comforting to many people who are terminating their pregnancy. Remember that you don't deserve judgement for your decision. You alone know what is best for you and your life, and there is no shame in getting an abortion for any reason, as long as it is your choice. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. If you need someone to talk to, I'll gladly be there to listen.Best wishes and I hope you find the moral support you need and deserve.
Pro-choicers do not support a person being coerced or forced to get an abortion.
Pro-choicers no not support a person’s being coerced or forced to stay pregnant.
Pro-choicers support the pregnant person making any reproductive decision they want or need to independently and of their own free will.
I am pro-choice because I think every person should have access to a safe and legal abortion if that is what they decide they want or need.
I am pro-choice because I do not believe anyone should be forced to stay pregnant or give birth against their will.
I am pro-choice because I believe everyone should be able to decide if and when they have kids, and no one should be able to make this decision for them.
I am pro-choice because I believe a person should not be shamed for having sex, for getting pregnant, or for getting an abortion.
I am pro-choice because I have no desire to control or punish the pregnant person.
I am pro-choice because I believe the pregnant person is important and should have the same rights as everyone else.
I could honestly cry right now.
This ruling means that TRAP laws in other states will be unconstitutional.
This ruling means that abortion clinics will no longer be unfairly targeted by forcing them to meet unrealistic and unattainable standards.
This ruling means that previously shuttered clinics will be hopefully be able to reopen and start serving patients again so they don’t have to go as far to attain abortion services.
Please don’t get me wrong. Health and safety standards are important in all medical clinics. Abortion clinics should be held to strict standards and subject to routine inspection. However, TRAP laws weren’t about that. They were about placing special restrictions on abortion clinics specifically so they’d be forced to close, that’s all. They had nothing to do with health and safety. Many other routine medical procedures are just as or are riskier than abortions, and yet only abortions were singled out in such a way that clinics were forced to close because they couldn’t meet the requirements for a variety of reasons (hospitals wouldn’t give the required admitting privileges, clinics couldn’t afford to make their clinics on par with ambulatory surgical centres, etc.)
This is the first time in a long time when abortion access may actually get easier rather than harder. Today is a day to celebrate. -V
Calling this kind of behavior “street harassment” almost sounds overly polite. In many instances, it’s stalking and intimidation. And no, many women are not going to tell these men that they’re feeling threatened - because doing even that could get them physically assaulted or even killed.
This is a great idea! I often see protesters outside the abortion clinic in St. John’s, and I have to wonder how many people have been harassed or bullied while trying to access legal medical care.
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of repeating myself when it comes to debates about abortion. I’ve created this master post to provide links that refute the most common pro-choice arguments.
But the fetus isn’t even a life. It’s a clump of cells. It doesn’t matter.
3 reasons why a fetus is a human being
Straight from the embryology textbook:
A zygote [fertilized egg] is the beginning of a new human being. Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual.
Even more proof that life begins at fertilization
What is the unborn?
Okay, it’s a human, but it’s not a person.
The shockingly bloody history of legal personhood
From Personhood:
A criterion for personhood that depends on certain functions of human activity implies that individuals who perform the chosen function more excellently should have higher human value. Individuals suffering from severe Alzheimer’s disease or under general anesthesia, who may not be self-aware or able to create future expectations, could no longer be considered persons. We know, however, that the human under general anesthesia retains his personal identity despite his temporary lack of self-awareness, so his personhood must cohere in his underlying nature. Legally speaking, “persons” are guaranteed the fundamental rights of individuals, including the right to life. Historically, abuses of personhood have led to the genocide of groups deemed “non-persons” by more powerful political or social groups. For example, up until the 14th Amendment, African-American slaves were legally considered three-fifths of a person. Native Americans were exploited because they were treated as less than full persons. The racial distinctions used to label these groups as “non-persons” were conveniently invented to justify the violation of human rights.
Justifications for abortion are inherently ableist
What makes human valuable?
But it’s basically just a parasite!
Why the embryo or fetus is not a parasite
You’re just against it because you’re (religious, Republican, conservative, etc.), but I’m not (religious, Republican, conservative, etc.).
Secular Pro-life
Life Matters Journal
Feminists for Life
Pro-life OBGYNs
Pro-life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians
Democrats for Life
Pro-life Humanists
New Wave Feminists
Pro-life Pagans
Pro-life Socialists
Why should non-Christians care about abortion?
But if you make abortion illegal, women will die! Haven’t you heard of back alley abortions?
The truth about back alley abortions
More about the coat hanger myth
Refuting the back alley myth
But what about cases of rape or incest?
Rape and incest victims reject abortion
Hard cases, exceptional choices
An honest look at the rape and incest exceptions
A pro-life answer to the rape question
Answering the rape exception
Inside the world of anti-abortion activists who were conceived in rape or incest
While on the topic, the pro-life community must rally in support of the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act
What if the woman is going to die?
Is abortion ever necessary to save the life of the mother?
What about the health of the mother?
What if the child is going to have a short life anyways?
Hard cases: Jeannie Wallace French
Hard cases: Tracy Haugen
Hard cases: Diane Simoni
Hard cases: Angelica Talavera
Abortion is needed to prevent overpopulation.
Simply stated: no. It’s not.
Women don’t regret their abortions!
Silent No More awareness campaign
Testimonies from post-abortive women
Abortion Recovery
Abortion workers regret their experience in the industry
Well, if you’re against abortion, why aren’t you against [insert other human rights injustice]?
We are against all forms of aggressive violence. That includes, but is not limited to: unjust war, abortion, euthanasia, slavery, torture, rape, embryonic stem cell research, human trafficking, abuse, sexism, racism, police brutality, suicide, etc.
Check out organizations like Life Matters Journal (read the most recent issue here!)and Consistent Life to find out more about this consistent approach to human rights issues.
That being said, not every pro-life organization is against all of the above. Dismissing their arguments against abortion because they happen to not be against some other form of injustice is an ad hominem fallacy.
Why ad hominem fallacies derail conversations
If you’re gonna be against abortion, you better be doing [insert some charitable action].
This is similar to the previous argument. Dismissing someone’s argument because you feel that they aren’t “doing enough” is another ad hominem fallacy.
That being said, pro-life organizations do a whole lot to support those in need:
Catholic Charities USA (which is obviously against abortion) is #13 on the Forbes list of the 50 largest US charities.
Pregnant on Campus supports pregnant or parenting students and provides them with resources.
Abortion Recovery helps men and women who have been affected by abortion.
Project Rachel also helps post-abortive women.
Option Line provides free counseling for pregnant women.
Pregnancy resource centers provide free ultrasounds, pregnancy tests, STI screening, parenting classes, and material assistance.
Pro-life organizations also assist in the adoption process.
You can’t be a feminist if you’re pro-life! Being pro-life is anti-woman.
That’s a straw man argument. Straw men make for poor arguments.
Besides, try to tell that to our feminist foremothers who were anti-abortion.
My body, my choice!
Why “It’s my body, I can do what I want!” won’t do
De Facto Guardian and Abortion
Why pregnancy is not comparable to forced organ donation
Again, you can’t compare pregnancy and forced organ donation
Dismantling the “bodily rights” argument without using the responsibility argument
From secularprolifeprofamily:
When you realize why the political pro-life/pro-choice divide truly exists, the whole “bodily autonomy” argument falls apart.At its core, it’s not merely about protecting fetuses or not. It’s about whether abortion should be a legally sanctioned medical procedure.And the right to bodily autonomy doesn’t guarantee any sort of medical procedure no matter what.In most jurisdictions, no practitioner will legally give breast implants to an underage girl. Surgeons refuse to amputate the limbs of BIID sufferers. Are those infringements upon bodily autonomy? Of course not. Nobody is fundamentally entitled to procedures that may be irresponsible or unethical.
The False Strength of the ‘Bodily Autonomy’ Argument for Abortion
Very concise!
Because it just needs reshared every so often.
Reblogging again because of that post last night
@proudly-pro-choice @prochoice-or-gtfo @prochoicefeminismstuff @antichoice-compassion Have any of you seen this before? I’d love to go through this myself but I’ve got an exam tomorrow morning and it seems more like your kind of thing.
If one of the others wanna tackle this one, go right ahead, but at some point my eyes kind of glazed over and yknow what? It’s not worth it.
-Kayo
This would be that disgusting post I mentioned a little while ago. In case you want to click on any of the links leading you to a pro life site so terribly inaccurate it’ll make your eyes bleed.
Lol. How many of these links go to LifeSiteNews?
Keeping it here in case I want to go through it and tear it apart like I did the abortion and mental illness masterpost, but seriously I don’t know if it’ll be worth the effort. Literally no anti-abortion blogger ever engaged with me on the mental illness masterpost takedown, there was just this complete radio silence even when I mentioned it elsewhere to the OP and another blogger who reblogged it. In fact mentioning it caused them to disengage from those other threads, too, which was convenient for me.
It’s one of those times I observed antis go off to la-la land when their views are seriously challenged. It’s creepy, really, how they just zone off to protect their own reality bubble.
The “De Facto Guardian and Abortion” link leads to a creepy analysis of what a woman should do if she were kidnapped and locked in a cabin with an infant. It’s pretty gory, so just a heads up if anyone decides to read it. The author seems to come to the conclusion that a kidnapped woman has the moral obligation to keep the infant alive instead of trying to escape and if the baby does not survive, it is as much her fault as that of the kidnapper.
Most of the other links are just pro-life garbage, many which boil down to “this woman chose to continue her pregnancy to term after rape” or “this woman regretted her abortion” so you should to. Not a single link gives a real reason why pregnant people should deserve less rights and have their bodily autonomy overridden, other than the author’s suggestion that it is the “moral thing to do”.
People have different morals, and different perceptions on what is ethical and what isn’t. What we do have are laws and rights, which are clear that no one can be legally compelled to give up their bodily autonomy in order to preserve the life of another, and that we have ownership over our own bodies.
6 weeks ago I had the most life changing experience of my life. While I was sleeping a person I knew came into my apartment and raped me. I have been dealing with the police ever since and havent have hardly even had time to process what has happened to me. I am very much alone in this world and have nobody to help me through this except the police who are dealing with my rapist, and the councilor they assigned me. I am already behind on my bills and i am barely making rent as it is on min. wage so I have had to make a quick decision and I have decided that I am unable to be a mother at this point in my life, and I cannot go through with this pregnancy. Unfortunately the procedure will cost upwards of $650 and I absolutely cannot afford this, and I am terrified. I have seen you literally save peoples lives before through reblogging their fundraisers and I need your help. If you could reblog my post and spread the word for me you would be giving me my future.
So if you can, please reblog this, and if you would like to donate, you can e-transfer (through your banking website) a donation to this email: canucksgal77@hotmail.com
I’m so sorry this has happened to you!
If there’s anything else we can do to help, please let us know!
~River
thankyou for your condolences and thankyou even more for sharing this it means everything to me! Heres an update: I went for an ultrasound this morning first thing and the technician confirmed that I am 4 weeks pregnant. My lovely doctor who is thankfully very open with me, asked me if I would like him to schedule everything for me, and he kindly did while I sat there with him. Ive got the date set up and have arranged a for a neighbor to drop me off and pick me up free of charge (some human beings are just angels) So please share share share! I need to raise this money before the 25th of june, 2016 and whatever I may have left over will be going towards my rent so not a penny wasted! Not only will your donation be going towards this procedure but you would literally be donating me more time to become who I am and making a happy future for myself.
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You do not have to defend your reproductive choices to anyone.
Your reason for aborting requires no validation from anyone other than yourself.
Your rights are not negotiable.
You do not void your rights by becoming pregnant.
A fetus is NOT more important or more entitled to your body than you are.
When faced with an unwanted pregnancy, you do not have to justify your feelings and your choice is your own to make.
Pro lifers get a lot of hate. We’re not the ones murdering people.
Just in the US and Canada, prolifers have killed 11 people, attempted 17 other murders, committed 153 assaults or batteries, and issued 383 death threats. Prolifers are out in force tonight with the foolishness
So yeah, actually, pro-lifers are the ones murdering people.
Stereotyping. Like saying Muslims are the murderous race.
I find it incredibly ironic that this post started by basically saying pro-choice people are murderers, yet when provided with proof of pro-life people’s murderous actions, it’s apparently “stereotyping”.
The basic problem with the anti-abortion argument of fetal bodily autonomy is that you can’t argue self-defense against a legitimate act of self-defense.
Let’s say Alice is touching Bob, who doesn’t want the contact. Bob tells Alice to stop touching him but Alice can’t or won’t comply. Bob then removes Alice’s touch by touching her back. Alice can’t argue her own bodily autonomy against Bob’s touch in this case, because Bob’s touching her was the minimum necessary act to remove her own unwanted contact.
The thing is, Alice could be touching Bob with any part of herself–her hand, penis, or blastocyst. The difference in the last case is that breaking the contact will kill Alice because she is an embryo and dependent on her contact with Bob to survive. That does not mean Bob must be forced to endure the unwanted contact, because that is to treat Bob as a means for Alice to survive.
You call yourself pro choice yet I’m not allowed to be prolife. It’s my belief that Id never abort. That’s my choice. Y'all can accept it.
No pro choice person would ever force you to get an abortion, since that would go directly against what we believe in. Everyone should have the choice to continue a pregnancy or terminate it, and that decision should always be left up to the individual who is pregnant.
Pro lifers get a lot of hate. We’re not the ones murdering people.
Just in the US and Canada, prolifers have killed 11 people, attempted 17 other murders, committed 153 assaults or batteries, and issued 383 death threats. Prolifers are out in force tonight with the foolishness
So yeah, actually, pro-lifers are the ones murdering people.
Hi, I was talking to a pro-choice person online and trying to convince them that a zygote and an embryo is just as much a person as a full-term baby. What are some scientific facts supporting this? Or any videos I could send to them?
Great question! I love bringing up biology in the abortion debate, because it really is on our side.
However, it’s important to clarify what the pro-choice person means when they say the embryo isn’t a person. Many people will agree that embryos are biologically alive and human, but will not consider them a person with rights and value. If that’s the case, you have to switch gears and talk about the philosophy of human rights. Our basic argument is that all humans should have equal human rights, including the preborn. If that isn’t the case, then that means one group of humans can deny human rights to another group, and that’s never a good idea.
If they are arguing biologically, there’s a lot you can use. EHD.org is a good website for prenatal development facts with textbook and journal article sources. They also have videos of different developmental stages.
Dr. Maureen Condic is also an awesome source. She’s a professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and has written a lot of great stuff. Here’s a PDF of an article she wrote on how we know a zygote is a new human being.
These are good sources to back up your point. But here are three basic questions that include both the biological and philosophical arguments:
1. If the embryo is growing, isn’t it alive?
2. If it has human parents, isn’t it human?
3. If living humans like you and me have human rights, then why don’t they?
I recommend asking these questions one at a time and getting an answer to each one before moving on.
Best of luck!
A fetus is alive, but is not considered a person by law. Regardless of whether or not someone believes that a fetus is a person does not change the fact that no person has the right to use another person’s body against their will in order to sustain their own life.
A person who needs a blood transfusion or a kidney can not just take it from somebody else, even if it was the other person’s actions which caused the need for it. A fetus requires the use of another person’s blood, nutrients and body to live and grow, but it has no inherent right to these things if the pregnant person does not wish to contribute them.
To grant a fetus the right to use a person’s body against their will would be giving them rights that no other person has. If someone needs my uterus to live, they need my permission. If I don’t consent to a fetus using my body, I have the right to terminate the pregnancy.
No one is denying any rights to a fetus by getting an abortion, since the fetus does not have any rights over the pregnant person’s body.
Acceptable reasons to have an abortion:
All of them. All reasons are valid No one else knows what your situation is No one else knows what your capabilities are You are the only person qualified to decide if YOU want or need an abortion
