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Abortion Is Not Murder
Abortion Is Not Murder
By Jennifer Wright
Apr 13, 2018
It is not surprising that Kevin Williamson, who called for women
who had abortions to be hanged (because they are, to his mind,
murderers), was recently fired from The Atlantic.
That fact that he was, is only one of many signs that the Overton
window is shifting dramatically on whether it is acceptable to call
abortion murder. The three-term Idaho State Senator Bob Nonini
has suggested the death penalty for women who have
abortions. Another Idaho state senator, Dan Foreman,
shrieked, “abortion is murder” at a bunch of college students.
Meanwhile a bill introduced in Ohio would charge women who
receive abortions with murder.
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NastyBaba@LisaWinslow
1 Apr
Its not miniscule when its you. Its EVERYTHING! Forcing her to
gestate and birth is just as much a violation as tye rape itself.
#Consent
Rogue Cyborg@CyborgRogue
But they do not get to pretend that women who have had
abortions are murderers who should be hanged.
Yes. And if that life posed any threat to us, we’d kill it
immediately.
One has a strong sense that people who invoke that argument
have never seen a movie about what happens when humans
encounter life in outer space.
But even in the case of human life, there are a great many
situations where, when one life poses a threat to another, that
life can reasonably be taken.
Adam King@AdamIanKing
11 Apr
Replying to @GrantStanleyUK
They are trying to act like women have a right to feel comfortable
with the decisions they make. That’s just not a right anybody has. I
agonise over the decisions I make, because I want to make the
right one. I don’t demand a buffer zone around me and shout
#backoff....
Grant Stanley@GrantStanleyUK
Btw, I don't oppose what some call 'abortion' for bonkers religious
reasons. I oppose it because innocent babies are just that -
innocent. A solution already exists and it's called adoption. Lots of
couples who can't have kids for many reasons that would love to
adopt. #ProLife
Momma J @jordinnicole
11 Apr
Replying to @rea_t12
Kaitlyn Artman@artmankaitlyn
If you don't want to parent the child, there are other options aside
from abortion. There are SO many families who can't have a child
and choose to adopt. Put the baby up for adoption, but don't be so
selfish to take a innocent child's life.
People do have a right to life, but they do not have a right to live
inside someone else’s body especially when doing so poses a
threat to that person’s body. Hell, to paraphrase
famous penis exposer and former comedian, Louis C.K., people
aren’t even allowed to live inside your house without your
consent. That’s based on the Castle Doctrine, which allows
individuals to use force—up to and including deadly force—to
remove individuals trespassing in their homes who they have
reason to think pose a threat to them. In the case of pregnancy,
keep in mind there’s a 95 percent chance that intruder will be
tearing up your genitals.
This notion that a man’s home is his castle and a woman’s body
is somehow a vacant space to be used by men as they wish—
whether they wish to grab it by the pussy or use it as a “host”
for a fetus—is one area where Trump’s more licentious
followerscan find common ground with Mike Pence’s devoutly
religious ones.
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Ladies if you are finally at the spot in your career that you worked
so hard to get to but you got pregnant....would you keep and put
your career on hold or be selfish and abort the baby?
We might do better to consider whether what is being asked of
women is grossly unreasonable.
And frankly, if, rather than the government, any individual were
to force a woman to have a baby against her will, it would be
clear how unreasonable that request was.
Studies from The Lancet have shown that the abortion rate
is higher in countries where the procedure in banned than
in countries where it’s allowed.
That may be because women in those countries also have less
access to birth control. But then, Planned Parenthood is a place
that also helps women get birth control. So shutting those
clinics down, as anti-abortion advocates claim to wish to do,
puts us in a position closer to those countries.
9 Apr
Has anyone noticed that those who support Abortion, and act that
has murdered between 62-73 MILLION HUMAN BABIES SINCE
1972 are ALSO THE SAME Liberals/LUNATICS that are FOR gun
control to save children's lives?? THAT IS BOTH Hypocrisy AND
Lunacy to the Nth degree!!
We are already going back to the bad old days of the back alley
abortions that killed women like Gerri Santoro. As much as
conservatives try to dismiss grotesque acts like coat-hanger
abortions as mythological, they’re happening right now. We’re
seeing multiple cases in the U.S. of women trying to induce
abortions with coat hangers in the past decade. Secret
networks are already forming of women to provide at-home
abortions for women who can’t access legal ones. They
shouldn’t have to form. As they do, it’s only a matter of time until
we see more back-alley abortionists like Pennsylvania doctor
Kermit Gosnell, who provided illegal abortions to low-income
women, killing a woman in the process, spring up. If we
valued women’s lives even a little, if we did not think that
endorsing killing women was merely a “controversial view”, as in
the case of Kevin Williamson, they wouldn’t need to spring up.
If they don’t care about that, what do they care about? All that
seems left is punishing women who don’t desire motherhood.
That rhetoric doesn’t sound so different than the men who claim
that women getting abortions are “selfish” today. There
are people who think: “I believed that it was women’s role, as
laid down by God, to have children….child bearing was what
women were made for, after all." And if they don’t want to bear
children, there are people, sometimes in their own family, who
think they should be punished. Statistically, it’s likely that
being forced to give birth will have some punishing impact on
women’s lives.
Ask yourself if those are the people you want determining the
legal policies surrounding your body. They might be.
If you are a woman, never forget that your body is yours. No one
has any right to any part of it without your consent. Your breasts
are yours, your vagina is yours, your womb is yours. The body
that houses your soul is already occupied. It is occupied by you.
You live there. And you do not have to let anyone use it without
your permission.