enoughtohold:

for any given argument that “abortion is wrong IF …”, somewhere there are actual laws or proposed laws aiming to prohibit abortions in those cases. i don’t care what you personally think about someone’s abortion — but you need to stop treating this as a hypothetical morality play and take a side on those actual laws that exist in the real world. that’s where the rubber meets the road. you need to decide whether you ACTUALLY support full bodily autonomy for other people, or whether you want the state to force them to carry fetuses to term against their will according to your personal moral code.

if you support forced birth, then come right out and say so. no more beating around the bush with “no one’s talking about forcing” and “i’m pro-choice but —”. if you support forced birth you are not pro-choice.

if you don’t support forced birth, then maybe consider whether it’s worth it to keep doing unpaid PR for the proponents of those laws by:

  • casting fetuses as people,
  • casting our bodies as places in which other ‘people’ can be entitled to reside, and
  • casting women and other people who can become pregnant as sinister, ignorant, and untrustworthy to make decisions about our own bodies and lives.

again, this is not about the morality of any given abortion. our feelings about that are immaterial. this is about the basic right to bodily autonomy.

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