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fandomsandfeminism: robert-the-foul-blog: fawnfreckled:cherokeefrank: fawnfreckled:cherokeefrank: fandomsandfeminism:radophelia: malmalsass: atlinmerrick: dancinggrimm: truckyousasha: thekaraokeninja: fandomsandfeminism: generalmaluga: albinwonderland: fandomsandfeminism: betterthanabortion: “My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t 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. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to. See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.  Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.  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 can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.  You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.  reblogging for commentary  But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.  First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.  And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” 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.  When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting. When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.”  And that is gross.  ^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!! This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read. WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! i’M FUCKING FURIOUS!!! Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why I’m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes. This!!!! *this but with one exception: women, not “people who can get pregnant”. This is misogyny against WOMEN. Name the problem. My word choice was deliberate and accurate. Anti-abortion action is, yes, driven by misogyny, absolutely. BUT it affects all people who are pregnant and can become pregnant, regardless of whether or not they are women (whether they be trans men, NB folk, or even girls, who are NOT adult women.) Both those facts are true, and my word choice was intentional to reflect that. Great, now do it for the Vaccine Mandate. My body my choice and all.Go on.Say it. for sure, a person doesn’t have to get the covid vaccine if they feel unsafe doing it, especially since it’s one of the least studied and quickly released vaccines and they’re keeping the information about it behind a wall for 75 years or something to that effectbut that wasn’t really the message of this post; I get you’re wanting to pit together these two ideas of body autonomy and that’s great, but nobody should have to be forced to do or not do something with their bodies if they don’t feel like it’s safe for them, that’s the whole idea No you provided the point and what I wanted just fine, thank you. okay! I’m glad we agree Since the almost universal arguments in favor of killing a baby are,rapeincestunsafe pregnancyShow me the numbers of people having them for those reasons vs the number having them as birth control.As far as the “my body, my choice” crowd goes, I counter with this, “Not your DNA, not your body.” Now you know that “killing a baby” is an emotionally charged phrase that it meant to conflate ending a pregnancy with like, infanticide. Which intentionally undermines the argument being made here- a baby that has been born is no longer a violation of someone’s bodily autonomy the way a developing fetus is. And in case this wasnt clear before, “my body my choice” doesnt mean that the FETUS is “my body”, it means that the fetus is INSIDE MY BODY, using my body, potentially against my will. My argument is fundamentally NOT about those 3 reasons you listed. Again, I feel like I was pretty clear here. An abortion is justified ethically if the person who wants the abortion doesnt want their body being used to carry a fetus any longer. That’s all the reason you need. *SLAMS ‘REBLOG’* -- source link

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