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I wonder how they'd react if their daughter/granddaughter was raped, became pregnant, and cried to daddy/grandpa that they didn't want to go through the struggle of pregnancy and labor for a child (that is not a child yet) they never wanted. All issues about choice aside (and I believe a woman has the right to choose assuming it's within a reasonable timeframe, certainly longer than 6 weeks), I highly doubt these same men would force their little girl to go through such a thing on principle.
It's very easy to tell other people how you think they should live their lives when it has literally nothing to do with you and you generally look down on them entirely as a race/sex/whatever. This is nothing but ignorance and, unfortunately, the only solution is time. My generation (born late 80s, early 90s) is getting closer to the age where we'll be the ones running things, and I'm really hoping that's going to help. Most of this ridiculous shit you see is from older politicians stuck in their ultra-conservative beliefs, making decisions that potentially ruin the lives of thousands or even millions of Americans, based on outstanding logic of "I DISAGREE!!!"
It's astounding to me that this is even a fucking issue. I don't understand how somebody's brain can work in a way that they think a woman's body can be fucking governed. This is a medical procedure and should be completely between a doctor and patient; if a doctor feels that, medically, it's too far along to terminate then that's one thing -- a politician that, quite frankly, knows jack shit should not be making medical decisions on a fucking state-wide or national scale. Imagine if an entire state outlawed childhood immunizations because the current political party in power didn't like them -- that would be fucking ridiculous. This isn't that different. Nobody is trying to slit the throat of a newborn here; a woman should have the right to decide entirely on her own if she wants to remove a tissue growth from her body before it develops further, a growth that is only as alive as the skin on your ear is "alive".
Things inside your body are yours to control. You are the government, you are the president, you have your own bill of rights, your own moral code, your own standards. The government can dictate whatever the fuck they want out in the open world, but anybody thinking they have the right to say what can and cannot go on INSIDE YOUR BODY is fucking absurd.
I don't even want to argue or debate about this; years ago I loved this kind of discussion, but lately I've realized how fucking ridiculous it is to even debate about. There is no genuine, thought-provoking, insightful retort; there's just hate, a total disconnection from the real world outside what's in your safe little local bubble, and a complete lack of empathy for (and desire to control) others and/or specifically women. Many of these people (and of course I know it's not all of them) are in the same group as those that pay women less to do the same work, that think deep down women enjoy being sexually harassed or that sexual harassment prevention itself is a ridiculous notion, and genuinely feel as if they are superior to women, even if only on a subconscious level.
Anybody that genuinely, deep down inside, believes that a raped woman is obligated to carry a pregnancy to term has a screw loose... and it's just pointless to try to convince them otherwise. These people are set in their ways and it's easier just to wait for them to die, knowing that their legacy of bigotry and hate will hopefully be dying with them. Each generation that's born has fewer and fewer of these people in it, as there are more people opening their eyes and less passing down family traditions of hate. It's unfortunate that so many will have to suffer today while waiting for tomorrow, but have hope that one day people will look back at this and how ridiculous the entire thing was the way we look back at when women couldn't vote or own property. We'll get there!
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