Missing them ๐
For Inktober 2022โs Day 12 prompt: Forget
Chain Lakes Loop, November 2019
i just want a girl to look at me and hope iโm gay
โMy body, my choiceโ only makes sense when someone elseโs life isnโt at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood.ย Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didnโt want to.
See, we have this concept called โbodily autonomy.โ Itโs thisโฆ.cultural notion that a personโs control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.ย
Like, we canโt even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.ย
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You canโt even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they arenโt using anymore after they have died.ย
Youโre asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.ย
reblogging for commentaryย
But, assuming the mother wasnโt raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their โbodily autonomyโ is a choice that the mother made. YOu donโt have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isnโt ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.ย
First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.ย
And hereโs another point: When you say that โrape is the exceptionโ you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.ย
When you say that โRape is the exceptionโ what you betray is this: It isnโt about a life. This isnโt about the little soul sitting inside some personโs womb, because if it was you wouldnโt care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say โrape is the exceptionโ what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but donโt want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their โconsequence.โย
And that is gross.ย
^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!
This is probablyย the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.
WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! iโM FUCKING FURIOUS!!!
Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why Iโm going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.
I will always reblog this
Iโm bored out of my mind
San River
Sanok, Poland 20-06-2020
Rolled up some Red Bay today! ๐ฅ๐
Pumpkins and joints
My hunny got me a new hello kitty bong ๐ฑ๐๐จโค
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mood for the past two weeks