I am pro-abortion, not just pro-choice: 10 reasons why we must support the procedure and the choice

[BrotherIvan]

87. Big Rec

It is time to stand up and totally (and easily) disprove all the nonsense the religious whackos have snuck into the conversation. Even on this thread, someone is arguing that life begins at conception and abortion is killing a baby. I've seen and discussed this several times on DU: a fetus in not a baby. Look it up in your Bible if you must. But the idea has been widely accepted from a long, hard PR campaign to erode the right of women to essential medical care.

My friend said it best when we were hanging out with her two year-old, "I used to be against abortion, but now I'm completely for it. Forcing someone to give birth and raise a child is cruel. It's too hard and too dangerous. I want two kids and forcing me to have any more because you believe a lie is bullshit. How many kids do you think I should have before I drop dead?" That's from a mother.

I will add, we have become so arrogant as a species we believe we need every human fetus to be born into yet another human to add to the billions already eating the planet. Why in this day and age, when the majority of children make it into adulthood, are we encouraging large farming families like it's 1909?? It's so willfully blind it's like thinking the sun revolves around the earth (which they probably do but won't admit). I'm hoping this phase of crazy religious backlash blows over in my lifetime. It's not necessary, practical, or best for the children to have monstrous families. Evolve already. And when can we get birth control that's 100% effective? We can go to Mars but we can't prevent a simple process? We haven't quite left the Dark Ages.

Great article. Needs to be said loudly and often.