2:26pm July 9, 2013

➸ Trying to find the right words: A PSA

josiahd:

Being pro-choice does not make any of these things ok:

• Suggesting that children of poor single mothers are doomed to have worthless lives and/or become criminals
• Pressuring poor women to have abortions when they want to have babies
• Hating on babies generally
• Treating parents of folks with…

Unfortunately the reason people say all that stuff is that people’s own classism and racism and ableism make people more likely to support abortion rights, than their own caring about people’s right to choose what happens with their own bodies.

(See also, why there are bizarre angels-on-a-pin abstract arguments about when life begins or what counts as human, rather than the frank acknowledgment that taking a life is okay if that life can only exist inside a person whose rights are more important because it’s their own body being used to support the other life.)

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