I'm 100% pro-choice.
Are you willing to tell a thirteen year old rape victim that she has to carry her baby to term?
If you're going to make an exception for rape, then you're punishing what you consider otherwise a child for something it did not do. If you're NOT going to make an exception for rape, then you're forcing a rape victim to carry her rapists child to term, against her will. Neither position makes any sense to me.
Anti-choicers make emotional arguments, using terms like "Kill their baby". They say "Put the baby up for adoption", but never adopt. They don't provide prenatal care to women, and they don't do anything for the child once it's born. Nor do they do anything to make the woman's life easier while she's carrying a fetus inside of her. And they like to ignore rape, because it's inconvenient for them. And when they do address it, they show themselves to not care about actual living people at all. They just care about embryos. That's all they've ever cared about. Just like they only care about soldiers when they're at war, but not when they come home. They only care as far as they have to, so they can give themselves the moral highground. I for one won't let them take that.
Are you willing to tell a thirteen year old rape victim that she has to carry her baby to term?
If you're going to make an exception for rape, then you're punishing what you consider otherwise a child for something it did not do. If you're NOT going to make an exception for rape, then you're forcing a rape victim to carry her rapists child to term, against her will. Neither position makes any sense to me.
Anti-choicers make emotional arguments, using terms like "Kill their baby". They say "Put the baby up for adoption", but never adopt. They don't provide prenatal care to women, and they don't do anything for the child once it's born. Nor do they do anything to make the woman's life easier while she's carrying a fetus inside of her. And they like to ignore rape, because it's inconvenient for them. And when they do address it, they show themselves to not care about actual living people at all. They just care about embryos. That's all they've ever cared about. Just like they only care about soldiers when they're at war, but not when they come home. They only care as far as they have to, so they can give themselves the moral highground. I for one won't let them take that.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
