STFU Sexists: Not your grandmother's feminism.
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Honestly, the thing that kills me about the anti-choice movement…
…is this notion that pro-choicers want abortion to continue to be a reality for so many women. That isn’t true. I want to live in a world where no woman faces unplanned pregnancy, because birth control is affordable, sex education is adequate, and reproductive coercion is an issue taken seriously and punished. I want to live in a world where rape is such an abominable crime that we actually take measures to eliminate it once and for all, so no woman is ever impregnated by a monster who has violated her. I want to live in a world where abortion is destigmatized so that women who will die if they carry to term, or have pregnancies that will result in stillbirths can have a necessary medical procedure without being harassed on the street by these so-called “pro-life heroes”. I want to live in a world where 1 in 3 women doesn’t have an abortion in her lifetime because less than 1 in 3 women need abortions in their lifetimes.
But the answer to this problem isn’t to ban abortion…that will solve nothing…in fact it will cost actual lives that everyone can agree are lives. I mean, really? If there are fires everywhere, and there are no fire extinguishers and everything is made out of dried pine needles, is the answer to ban fire? Or is the answer to provide fire extinguishers, fire safety classes, and buildings not made of dried pine needles?
The answer is to create an environment in which we actually give a shit about taking care of women, and making sure that everyone has access to family planning and health care. We have to create an environment that supports women who give birth by not immediately ignoring their children when they’re living and breathing, but by making sure there are good public schools, and living wages for their parents.
So it really gets under my skin when these self-righteous “Students for Life” start pontificating about how they’re going to “end abortion in our lifetime”. Yeah, well, your way doesn’t work and it kills people. So stop demonizing those of us working towards the actual solutions.
