So there comes a time when I always see something on the internet that causes a fire in me. It's always a fire of disbelief with ignorance. This time it deals with abortion. I personally would never get an abortion for I don't think I could deal with my mental health afterwards and it doesn't exactly go too well with my religion either. That doesn't mean I'm allowed to say abortion is wrong. It also doesn't give me the right to shame other women and fight against their rights as humans. People are put in all different sorts of situations, none of which you can judge considering you're not perfect either. Before I start on why forcing people to stay pregnant is wrong, let me just say no woman is happy getting an abortion. Let me repeat that. NO WOMAN IS HAPPY GETTING AN ABORTION. Relieved perhaps, but happy? Yeah right. There's a quote out there that says “A woman does not want an abortion like she wants an ice cream cone, a new dress, or a Porsche; she wants an abortion like an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg to escape.” Now let me tell you why it's wrong to tell a woman she has to give birth.
You cannot force a human being to save someone else's life. Dead people do not have to give up perfectly good organs to save people. People who are brain dead but have perfect, LIVING organs do not have to give them to others. It calls for consent. The family's consent. You do not have to donate blood to someone who is bleeding out before you even if you are related to them. You don't have to supply your organs and blood to a fetus. The fetus is dependent off its mother. It cannot live without it. Just like some people can't live without machines to keep them alive. If you force a woman to have the child, you are giving her no body autonomy. Does the fetus have the right to use the things keeping it alive? Let's see, if we're going off the argument that the fetus is already alive then let's pretend this is a child. If a child is in the hospital and it cannot live without a transplant, transfusion, or some other miraculous medical intervention, do you know who gets to make the call? Not the doctor. Not the government. Not a bunch of people with loaded Bibles. The parents. Yup. The parents get to say what sort of treatment the kid gets. If they do not want to put the kid through that or if their life would be financial hell afterwards which would mean losing the child (which is emotionally damaging to children. the psychological trauma induced with separation cannot be easily repaired like a cut), they do not have to. You want to know has all the say during pregnancy? The woman. She is the hospital and the organs and the doctor and the mother for this fetus while it is in her. She can say what she wants. Yes it means that fetus won't get to live a life and some people think it's murder, but honestly, that thing couldn't live outside the body. She's turning off the life support that she is providing physically. There's no telling what mental trouble she's taking from the pregnancy too. Yes a healthy marriage would consist of making a joint decision together but the world doesn't work like that for everyone. Everyone has a different situation. Some people are raped. Some people can't afford it. Some people would be social rejected and ridiculed. Some people would be abandoned. Some people just don't want a child. Some people don't want their body to go through pregnancy. Regardless, you have no right to make their decision for them. Most people who argue against this believe in God, right? You might argue we need to live by God's rules and not the governments? The Bible says to respect and follow the laws of your government. You sin. Why do you get to judge another sinner if that's what you consider sin? If you're a Christian, you believe in forgiveness. Jesus already knew they were going to kill him before they did. Even as they were he asked for God to forgive them. If you're supposed to live like Jesus, maybe you should revisit that. But you are not allowed to force your beliefs on others. Your religion is not everyone else's. Let people make their own choices based off of their beliefs.
If you are pro life then you believe every single life has the right to live. This includes children born from incest, children with painful and horrible diseases, children born from rape, children born from the death of their mothers in labor. Every single life. Every single pregnancy. Every single situation is included when you throw in this argument. You cannot disconnect the two. It's impossible. So you want children to be born from the act that was a sin, a non-consensual act forced upon a woman. You would rather shame people who have consensual sex who do not want or are not in position to have a child. I'm sorry but hospital bills are freaking expensive. Giving birth is expensive. People are going to have sex. As creatures of survival, we have the instinct to reproduce (let me exclude the asexual community from this), and so sex will happen. In marriage and outside of. You can't stop it. There are consequences to having unprotected sex. There are also consequences of sin. Which EVERYONE does. If you're a Christian, you don't have to pay those consequences though. The consequence of sin is death. You were freed from that with Christ. Let those people be free from their consequence as you are. Do not cast your stones. Let them go. The world is not black and white. You are the same as those people. Try to love people even as they are sinners because that is exactly what Jesus did for you.
I am a Christian and I am pro choice.
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