Pro-Choice != Pro-Abortion

For those of you who don’t understand programming syntax, the symbol != means “does not equal”.

I was part of a debate earlier this month in an online discussion forum. The thread started with someone basically using the rather flimsy argument of “I was the child of a rape. For you pro-abortionists, do I have no right to life?” Pretty much right away I tore the guy a new hole in his body and then proceeded to violate the new hole with a range of sharp implements.

First, we are not “pro-abortion”. We are pro-choice. There is a marked difference. I, myself, am Pro-choice, but that does not mean I think someone should get an abortion for as selfish a reason as “I do not want a child”. People like that give the Pro-Choice movement a bad name (not as bad as the “Pro-Life” people who murder doctors. No siree). That being said, there are many situations when a woman should be allowed choose to have an Abortion. That’s what pro-choice is all about, that women should have the right to choose based on their circumstances and beliefs. Someone who knows nothing about a pregnant women and her situation has absolutely no right to make her decision for her. Pro-choice does not mean “Everyone get an abortion!”. It means that the option should be there when needed.

Take, for example, a child who has a serious birth defect and will not survive long outside the womb. Would you rather have the mother give birth to this child, raise it for a year and then have it die. After she has bonded with it even further by feeding it, nursing it, putting it to sleep? Or if the pregnancy comes with a serious threat to the health of the mother? Should she have to die because a clump of cells has more right to life than she does? In my opinion it’s people who think like that who are monsters. A clump of cells does not have a family, or friends or work colleagues who will mourn its loss. A fully grow woman with a history and relationships does. And I would always put her above something that could not survive outside her body.

And what about pregnancies that result because of a rape? I know, that if I was such a pregnancy and my mother had to be forced togive birth to a living reminder of that traumatic and disgusting event I would not be a very happy child growing up. Some women are strong, yes, but others are not. Can you honestly say that a child of a legitimate act would be treated the same way as a child caused by a gross violation of the mother’s body? If you can, you are deluded, naive and stupid.

Here’s the simple, honest fact of it all people. Prepare thy pitchforks.

By defintion (both medically and in a dictionary) guess what a foetus is up until about week 24? Are you read for this…

A foetus is a parasite.

While growing, the foetus is totally dependent on the mother. It cannot survive outside her body until the third trimester of the pregnancy. And despite what pro-life enthusiasts would have you believe the majority of abortions take place in the first trimester, when the foetus is barely recognisable as a human. If the foetus is taken about before week 22, then it will not survive. Simple as that. And if it takes from the mother, provides nothing in return, and is totally dependent on taking from her boy…it is a parasite. Not a human, not a baby (it’s only a baby once born).

Now, some people will say it is human. No, it’s not. It’s human tissue, but it is most definitely not human. A tumour which can kill you is human tissue. Should the survival of that be over the human host?

I am not saying a woman should just go get an abortion because a child would be inconvenient. But imagine a college student, her whole life ahead of her, dreams aspiration. And then one night she finds out she’s pregnant. And before you scream “She should have used protection!” no form of contraception is 100% effective unless it’s permanent. And a lot of the pro-lifers also seem to be against contraception, so that argument goes out the window. This girl has no way out, and she is far to young to be able to give this child the life it deserves. In my opinion, she should have the option of terminating the pregnancy before it begins to interfere with her college life and studies. Of course, the beauty of pro-choice is that if she doesn’t agree with abortions she can have the child and make te best of it.

We are not the ones taking away people’s rights. That’s being done by the pro-life people.

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