Roe v Wade Overturned
Once again, what has happened in America has taken over social media and global news. This particular ruling is important and necessary to talk about, it is not trivial, in all those red states above, the woman’s right to choose has been revoked.
I sincerely hope this thinking is not adopted anywhere else in the west, and I’m once I’m profoundly grateful to live in Britain.
As I’m sure is obvious, I am pro-choice.
I do not want to take this moment to shit on everyone who is pro-life, instead it’s important to understand that they do not view abortion the way we do. For them it literally is killing a child.
I do not view abortion, specifically early term abortion, in those terms. It’s a foetus that will become a child, it is not a child. That doesn’t means it’s not agonising and heartbreaking to think about. It’s still a loss of potential life.
The difference however is that if I have to make the choice between that potential for life and a living breathing woman with a life, a history and a future: I choose the woman.
It is the woman’s right to choose.
There are some serious philosophical issues with the current arguments and terminology we are using to make those arguments.
‘Pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’ misses out rather a lot of really important information.
Pro-choice does not mean anti-life it means being pro the woman having a choice over her own body and her future.
Pro-life doesn’t really mean pro-life it means pro-birth. It means making sure the foetus develops into a baby and passes through the birth canal.
If it really were a ‘pro-life’ position then I imagine we’d see more care for those babies once they were born. That mothers in America would have maternity leave and some kind of help with childcare and healthcare.
That women would be supported with not just the the birth but the life of the child.
And that isn’t the case.
This is not at all a black & white issue. Especially in America where the right wing that has pushed for this is underpinned by religious, specifically Christian, beliefs. I respect their right to their beliefs, but they do not belong in the law.
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