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Warning, abortion-related ranting.
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respect_otters on my friends list. Respect for Otters (it comes from a child miswriting "be kind and respectful of others") is a liberal social commentary blog. Love it. Forget which of my friends clued me into it.
Today's article was very interesting - it was about elective abortion for cases of fetal health, and the woman who runs Otters is handicapped, so she had some really thought-provoking things to say about the choice to abort fetuses who were sometimes healthier than she is. (One of the articles she links to talks about a woman who has aborted twice because she doesn't want them born with an extra finger like she was. An extra finger! Even child-disliking me is thinking "are you NUTS?")
But then one article had a quote that just made me see red:
"People will come into my office in tears and say they've been against abortion their whole lives," he said, "but they'll make an exception for themselves."
You betcha. They'll make an exception for themselves - but I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they would fight tooth and nail anyone else making that decision. Two of the articles quote women who've had fetal-health-related abortions referring to them as miscarriages or procedures - in one case because she didn't want to be caught up in the anti-choice hysteria, and one because she didn't really consider what she did an abortion.
You had an elective abortion, honey. Your moral ground is no higher than the teenager who screwed around and the woman whose birth control failed. All three of you decided that you could not cope with this child at this time for reasons of your own. And chew on this next time you see a picket line outside a clinic -- while a few of the anti-abortion laws have loopholes for rape, incest, or the health of the mother, none of them have loopholes for the health of the child. Not one. If Roe vs Wade is repealed, you don't get to mark that little Gift from God "return to sender" no matter how broken it got in the shipping.
While I have no doubt that there is a terrible emotional hell for women who have to choose to lose the child they wanted, I'm livid that there are women out there who want to use the right we all fought for just for themselves, while congratulating themselves as being "better" than the rest of us pro-choicers.
I've got
respect_otters on my friends list. Respect for Otters (it comes from a child miswriting "be kind and respectful of others") is a liberal social commentary blog. Love it. Forget which of my friends clued me into it.Today's article was very interesting - it was about elective abortion for cases of fetal health, and the woman who runs Otters is handicapped, so she had some really thought-provoking things to say about the choice to abort fetuses who were sometimes healthier than she is. (One of the articles she links to talks about a woman who has aborted twice because she doesn't want them born with an extra finger like she was. An extra finger! Even child-disliking me is thinking "are you NUTS?")
But then one article had a quote that just made me see red:
"People will come into my office in tears and say they've been against abortion their whole lives," he said, "but they'll make an exception for themselves."
You betcha. They'll make an exception for themselves - but I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they would fight tooth and nail anyone else making that decision. Two of the articles quote women who've had fetal-health-related abortions referring to them as miscarriages or procedures - in one case because she didn't want to be caught up in the anti-choice hysteria, and one because she didn't really consider what she did an abortion.
You had an elective abortion, honey. Your moral ground is no higher than the teenager who screwed around and the woman whose birth control failed. All three of you decided that you could not cope with this child at this time for reasons of your own. And chew on this next time you see a picket line outside a clinic -- while a few of the anti-abortion laws have loopholes for rape, incest, or the health of the mother, none of them have loopholes for the health of the child. Not one. If Roe vs Wade is repealed, you don't get to mark that little Gift from God "return to sender" no matter how broken it got in the shipping.
While I have no doubt that there is a terrible emotional hell for women who have to choose to lose the child they wanted, I'm livid that there are women out there who want to use the right we all fought for just for themselves, while congratulating themselves as being "better" than the rest of us pro-choicers.