Thursday 15 November 2012

'Wobbly' about abortion? Think it's 'complicated'?

Then you're either hard of thinking or you're a woman-hating arsehole. 'As early as possible, as late as necessary'. That's how it ought to be. And yes, that does mean I support the right to abortion on demand, right up to the moment of birth.

Because women matter more than foetuses.

Maybe you think you're a reasonable person, and you agree that it's wrong for a woman to be legally compelled to continue a pregnancy if that pregnancy was the result of rape. Or if continuing it is going to kill her. Oh, if you think your imaginary friend ensures that raped women don't get pregnant (unless it wasn't  real rape) and that your imaginary friend thinks foetuses are so special that women never die during pregnancy unless they're like, bad in some way and bring it on themselves, then you are so stupid you shouldn't be allowed near a computer.  .

Maybe you're not quite that stupid, and you don't hate women quite that much. Maybe you just think that it's terribly sad if a late pregnancy is aborted, and you'd rather that didn't happen, because it makes you feel a bit icky. If you're all 'waa, waa, but some women want late abortions because, well, because they want to go on holiday, or they don't like the hospital nightie they were given' then you are still stupid. And you are still a woman-hating arsehole, just more stupid than malevolent. Because you'd have to hate women to consider that so many of them will just abort their pregnancies, given the freedom to do so, that it's worth letting women like Savita Halappanavar die. Or Angela Carder. Or all the women who die from pregnancies their bodies can't cope with, or from unsafe abortions they undergo because they can't get safe, legal ones. Both Savita Hallapanavar's and Angela Carder's unviable foetuses died, and would have died no matter what, but the antichoice, woman-hating arseholes influencing policies ensured that those women died too.

If you have ever taken part in anti-choice activism, then I hold you in just as much contempt as I hold the EDL and the BNP. You are a moronic, bigoted waste of oxygen and there is no excuse for your behaviour. If you're just a whinyarse worried about the idea of other women aborting, then just get your head round this. 

YOUR VIEWS ON ABORTION ARE ONLY RELEVANT TO WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR UTERUS.

IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT A UTERUS THEN YOUR VIEWS ARE OF NO IMPORTANCE AT ALL. NOT EVEN IF YOUR SPERM WAS INVOLVED. IT'S STILL NOT YOUR UTERUS AT STAKE.

And your imaginary fucking friend is as irrelevant to this as it is to everything else. I am just not going to bother with tiptoeing round the sensibilities of the superstitious or the antichoice. Ever.

Oh, and one final thing: If you are anti-abortion because you have fertility issues, I am sorry for your problems. But that still doesn't make other women's lives, wombs or choices any of your business.

2 comments:

  1. I honestly don't have a problem with people who believe abortion is morally wrong as long as they do not try to force that opinion on others.

    However, I think that people who subscribe to the mentality that 'a woman shouldn't be allowed to refuse a cesarean just because she doesn't want one' ARE morally responsible for the death of women like Angela Carder and Savita (can't spell her last name; it's too long!).

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  2. Shall I dare say that the lawyer Harry Shorstein can morally share in some of the blame for women like Angela Carder and Savita's deaths? See this story: http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/072701/met_6794248.html

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