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In reply to the discussion: We should not be pro abortion! [View all]Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)Why would the existence of a medical procedure that's been around since the beginning of history require anyone to be in favor of it?
This whole "pro-abortion" thing is an emotional manipulation by anti-choice zealots (many of whom are pro-choosing to have an abortion when it's their own pregnancy or someone that they love).
Are you in favor of the existence of other kind of horrific but medically necessary/recommended procedures? Amputation? Mastectomy? etc.
I'm just frustrated any time we give even so much as a nanometer to the hateful idiots who make it their life's work to harass, terrorize and abuse women and doctors seeking to make medical decisions about what's in the best interest of their own (or their patient's) bodies.
Conceding this preposterous position that we need to be in favor of established medical procedures or against it, is just irritating.
I totally agree with you, I'm very much in favor of women choosing what's best for them. I'm in favor of pregnancy by choice, delivery by choice, and motherhood by choice, and the existence of all those things.
I'm also not pro-abortion, since that's a case when something has gone wrong. Either maldevelopment of a wanted pregnancy, or a pregnancy happened when it was not desired and now a woman/girl has to go through the onerous task of seeking out and getting a procedure that so many make into something more than the regular medical care it is.