None of these abortion laws are written by people who become pregnant.

[kpete]

https://cyarskj1899.tumblr.com/post/674458034342363136

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Abortion is, in fact, a form of birth control.

People get abortions so they don't give birth. The majority of people who get abortions are also on another form of birth control, which failed in some way.

Finally, focusing on the most gruesome and heartbreaking cases when abortion is needed creates the impression that we need abortion *only* for those cases and erases the fact that getting an abortion is an unpleasant but routine health-care procedure that most people don't agonize over when the decision comes to them.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. +1000

Abortion is a right, and it's a women's choice whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. I agree that the focus on the special cases makes it seem like those are the cases we should be basing the law on instead of the law being based on individual citizens having control of their own bodies.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Yep, it creates a worthy/unworthy moral judgment when there doesn't need to be one.

[Lovie777]

2. Mainly by old white men . . ..

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Sure, those are good reasons to keep it legal.

But having one just because you don’t want to be pregnant is as a legitimate as any of those extreme examples.

I don’t know that the reason matters at all.

[Bettie]

5. And before Roe, so many young and not-so-young women

died from botched abortions.

The fact is, making it illegal won't end abortion, it will push it underground, ending only the safe, legal ones.

[Solly Mack]

7. Tragic scenarios are meant to appeal to people who simply don't give a fuck if

your life is in danger. If your fetus isn't viable. If your father, brother, uncle, cousin, neighbor, teacher, stranger raped you.

They don't care.

It's about punishing and controlling women.

If your life is in danger, they just think you did something wrong to make it that way. Or their fallback - "It's God's will".

If the fetus isn't viable - they think you did something wrong to cause that. Or their fallback - "It's God's will".

These are the same people that blame the rape victim for getting raped. What were you wearing? Were you drinking? Why were you out so late? And on and on and on. Or their fallbacks - "It's God's will" and, in the case of rape, the hateful and idiotic - "Don't blame the baby".

A woman doesn't owe anyone an explanation for having an abortion.

And she for damn sure doesn't need a tragic event to justify having an abortion.

It's her life that matters.

Hers.