No, I Will Not 'Stop Whining' About the Abortion Bills
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No, I Will Not 'Stop Whining' About the Abortion Bills

Our access to birth control is challenged. Our access to safe abortion is stripped away. They tell us not to have sex if we don't want to get pregnant, and then they rape us when we won't sleep with them.

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No, I Will Not 'Stop Whining' About the Abortion Bills

After reading this article and feeling like I was going to absolutely vomit from the disgusting words, I feel like now is as much as an important time as ever to speak my truth.

First of all, how abhorrent of a human being you must be to make jokes about the #MeToo movement, your parents must be so proud. But I'll ignore that for now. Instead, let's talk about something called Bodily Autonomy. You may have heard about it before. I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't though, considering that your education seems to be that of a 5th grader.

Bodily Autonomy means that as humans, we have a respected choice of what happens concerning our bodies. Did you know that unless a dead person explicitly stated that they want their organs donated, one can not donate those lifesaving organs to another dying person? See, even corpses have Bodily Autonomy. Now, corpses have more bodily autonomy than American women who get pregnant under ANY circumstance.

You stated that you see pregnancy as 'sharing a body' and there I might agree with you. Except, they aren't just sharing a body, a woman is now being forced to sacrifice her American right of Bodily Autonomy. Very constitutional, isn't it? Sorry, you might not understand the sarcasm there.

Something else you may not know is that these abortion banning laws don't just impact women looking for an elective abortion. See the word 'elective' there? That's an important word to remember, so take notes. These bans affect ALL pregnant women. Now, in abortion banning states, women who have spontaneous abortions (also known as miscarriages) could very well die from a naturally occurring event that hadn't been intended. Yes, you heard me correctly. Women who have miscarriages in these abortion banning states could either die from lack of medical care or cop a murder charge and be put on death row because your congressmen don't know their a** from a hole in the ground. Not only that, but they don't study the law well enough to know that it will affect the women who miscarry as well as the women who choose to have an abortion.

If a woman were to miscarry past six weeks in certain abortion banning states, they can be refused medical care. Do you understand what that might mean for a lot of women? Septicemia. A very painful death because doctors won't be able to remove the already dead fetal tissue from a woman if she can't pass it on her own. Otherwise known as a D&C.

Not only that but if a woman were to show up at an emergency room while presenting signs of a miscarriage, this allows the law to investigate them for MURDER. Women who wanted their children. Wanted to name their baby, paint the nursery walls, raise that child. They could very well go to jail if the courts cannot decide whether or not she instigated a miscarriage or if it came naturally. Don't believe me? Look at the women who are in cages in Latin America who are sentenced to over 30 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit.

Think about your friends. Think about your mothers and sisters and aunts and daughters. They get pregnant, they decide they want their baby, their baby dies and they don't get help, and they die because your laws can't tell the difference between elective abortion and spontaneous abortion. See where I'm headed with this?

If you think these already existing women don't deserve to live, are you really pro-life? If you think that taking away lifesaving technology for women across America is pro-life, then you're an idiot. An embryo does not deserve more rights than a woman with a living, beating heart. A woman who still has a life to live. A sack of cells shouldn't have more rights than someone who has lived outside of the womb for longer than that embryo has existed.

Yes, abortion sucks. In case you haven't noticed, women don't go around having an abortion for fun. No woman ever sat down at brunch with her girlfriends and said 'Hey, you know what would be fun? Let's go get abortions and then a pedicure after.' Abortion is not something that any woman would want to go through. But they go through it because they have no other choice. You can argue adoption, yet that only brings more sacrifice of Bodily Autonomy into the conversation. You're asking a lot of a woman to grow a child for nine months just to hand it off to someone else. That's incredibly selfish of you.

If you're really 'pro-life' you'd go out and do something about the 400,000 children who are in foster care. Oh wait, that's right, you're not 'pro-life', you're just anti-choice.

How about women who just don't want kids? They get married and they love the life they live without children. Boom, one day their contraception fails and they get pregnant. Are you saying that they shouldn't be allowed to sleep with their spouse just because they don't want kids? Because contraception fails that they should just have a baby anyway?

Or what about that 16-year-old girl who's abused at home? She finds out she's pregnant and her parents kick her out without a dollar to her name. She lives on the streets for nine months until she gives birth to a child who she can't support. That baby dies of starvation because you forced a kid to raise a kid when she couldn't do it. You wouldn't care, right? You only cared before they took their first breath in this world and then all of the shits you could give just fly out the window.

Or how about me for example. A 19-year-old girl who isn't sure if she wants to have biological children because of a long family history of suffering? My grandmother suffered through her childhood, my mother, and then me. Not to mention the plethora of problems my child will have like kidney disease and hip dysplasia and addictive tendencies that have been passed through my bloodline for generations. Because I'm not sure if I want kids, does that mean that I should never take the chance of lying in bed with a partner whom I love dearly? All because I might accidentally get pregnant and then be stuck with a child who will only know pain and suffering.

My point is, it is MY body and it is MY choice because it is my life too.

My beating, fully grown heart deserves more rights than a clump of cells. I am a human before an embryo is. You will not take away my bodily autonomy unless you want to go to war with women around the country.

If men could get pregnant, there would be abortion clinics around every goddamn corner like a Starbucks. Or how about this, here's a great solution to end abortion. Make men get vasectomies until they are sure they want children too. I mean, after all, they are 100% responsible for pregnancy when it comes down to a science, and vasectomies are reversible. I can already imagine the repulsion on your face as you read that. Because men would refuse to have someone else, someone whom they've never met signing laws that dictate and control their bodies.

As women, we are CONSTANTLY denied rights over our bodies. But what you fail to see if the metaphorical food chain of these laws.

Our access to birth control is challenged. Our access to safe abortion is stripped away. They tell us not to have sex if we don't want to get pregnant, and then they rape us when we won't sleep with them.

Let me ask you this. Who the hell are you to make decisions for millions of women you haven't met. Millions and millions of women who you know nothing about their lives, their health, their stories. Who the hell are you to impose control over their bodies just because of your beliefs? I sure as hell don't plan on making choices for other women, just as I would expect them not to do the same to me.

Whether you like it or not, viewing abortion as murder is an opinion. We're all entitled to our own opinions, so why should your opinion tell me what I can and can't do with my body? Yes, MY BODY. Not yours, not an embryo's. MINE.

Access to safe abortion is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. Isn't that what you MAGAts are all about? The constitution and honoring it? Well, it's my opinion that the founding fathers would be disgusted with how you wipe your ass with the laws they set into place for ALL Americans, not just men.

So, no. I will not stop whining about these bills until my very last breath because I refuse to let some gross old white republican man tell me what I can and cannot do with MY body. Because whether you like it or not, it is my body.

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