Let me get this clear from the get-go: I do not condone abortion as a casual choice. I’ll leave the “when is a human a human?” debate alone, since I think it’s a grey, cyclic philosophical area. I do very much believe that consenting partners should know wtf they’re doing (i.e., sex), and should be responsible (i.e., condoms and/or birth control pills, preferably both if the woman has financial access to said pills). All choices have consequences, and consenting partners should ever be aware that the “living in the moment” thing could lead to something much more prolonged.

But as I have said many times during the coarse of this “personhood” fiasco, accidents and disasters happen. Condoms bust, pills are irregularly taken or even backfire (I actually know a young-sh woman that had both of her kids while on birth control), and, worse of all, rape or incest.

I wasn’t raped. But as a woman, it can literally happen at any time, and I could end up with that unwanted aggression (metaphorically and physically) growing in my body. I was, however, molested as a child. So, I know very well what it’s like to have a man, and/or a figure of dominating strength, claim something that shouldn’t have been his.

My fight will always be for the victims. It’s not a fetus’s fault for being conceived, but it’s also not a woman’s fault for being raped. A victim is a victim is a victim.

So, believe what you will. You won’t change my mind, and I won’t try to change yours. But there are solid reasons for why I believe what I do. Just as I’d like to think that you have your own reasons for whatever you believe. 

I’ll fight for  your freedoms, whether it’s freedom of belief or freedom of choice. Just don’t try to take mine away.

“Pro-choice or anti-choice, etc… the lesson here is that when the choices no longer belong to you, it doesn’t matter anyway.” -Brandon, wise friend of mine

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