Progressive people of faith: The Nuns of Philadelphia

[beam me up scottie]

64. Your post is a thing of beauty, one of those rare posts that make me remember why I joined.

You are absolutely right, those passive aggressive digs at women who support abortion rights are the worst.

This is how it comes off:

"Well I personally think it's murder but you go on ahead and kill your baby, I won't try to stop you because I'm pro-life AND pro-choice. You should be grateful to me for being such a committed feminist because I support your right to murder the life you carry even though I find it morally repugnant. Aren't I just awesome to sacrifice my morals to support your rights? You're welcome!"

The shaming of women who choose abortion is sickening. It's patronizing and smug to throw that caveat in there. They can't bring themselves to simply say "Of course I support abortion. 100%. Period." No, they have to try to guilt trip us by pointing out that they still think we're doing something immoral but they'll allow it because they're just so progressive.

Fuck that noise. I'm not just pro-choice - I'm pro-abortion.

Abortion is NOT immoral, it is HEALTHY and it is NORMAL. I don't know a single woman who regrets having an abortion and I sure as hell don't regret mine. It's bad enough women have to face protesters who call them murderers, that they have to worry that someone will gain access to their personal records and publish them, that they have to deal with the stigma at all - but when our 'allies' are doing the shaming it's even worse.

How dare anyone try to shame women for having a medical procedure? Do they feel guilty for masturbating? Do they cry every time their partner douches? Do they stand over used tampons and pads and weep over the loss of life? Because half of all miscarriages happen before the woman even knows she's pregnant so there's a good chance there's a "life" in that waste basket. If they don't obsess over those things then where do they get off trying to make us feel guilty for "taking a life" by having an abortion?

Thank you AtheistCrusader for saying what we've all been thinking. And thank you for being a true ally. You get it.

You should make that an op or at the very least put it in your journal so others can read it.