Can a feminist be pro-life?

[vixengrl]

11. I have real problems with the whole question--

First off--what is feminism? The simple answer to that should be "a subscriber to the radical idea that women are people." If women are to be treated as people--they are obviously entitled to their own opinions. They have agency and should be supported in issues of self-determination. If a woman was firmly committed to the idea that her committment to life meant that her pregnancies not be ended--she is absolutely right to make choices concerning her body--but beyond that?

In so far as I am also a woman and therefore a person, I would want her to afford me the same courtesy of respecting my agency over my body, and my judgment over what happens with it and within it, including how I dispose of an unwanted pregnancy happening to my body. If she can dispute my assertion of personhood, she casts doubt on her own. Am I only not a person should I happen to be pregnant? Am I conditionally a person? Or am I absolutely a person? If I am not a person with agency because of some mechanism related to my femaleness--the accident of my sex, such as pregnancy--then the person who has judged me incapable of making a decision about my body "because I made the wrong one" with respects to the gestating unfinished business inside of me has failed the feminism test--really--I can't choose? My body is someone else's to determine? I am a puppet, a doll, a servant? Then my personhood is denied on account of my femaleness--

You get nothing! I bid you good day! You can't have your feminist cred and eat mine, too.

I reject the idea of fetus personhood utterly--it's unsupportable. The earliest surviving preganancies are waht? 21 weeks and some days? Over 90% of abortions are before that? I can not accept the idea that something not viable, not living, except for reliance on a female body, has a claim upon that person's self-determination. If I deny that fetal claim on my decision--I would deny the claim of some "pro-life" female on my decision all the more--we being so much less "attached".

(I am not having an argument on this thread--everything I had to say on this subject is right here. In case there are any replies re: what ifs and yeah buts. Honestly--a woman's body is all she has and is her business--end of story.)