Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Stop Praying for Me, I’m Just Here for Condoms - Taylor Williams


The fight to gain reproductive autonomy has been a long one. Since people decided that birth control was immoral because it’s a woman’s “duty” to have and raise children, this argument has dragged on. The accessibility of birth control has contributed to a rise in illegal abortion rates in poor communities as well as deaths from said abortions. How can someone call themselves pro-life when they are a part of the system that has caused so many deaths of innocent women? Women who, if they had the means to prevent getting pregnant in the first place, would not have needed an abortion at all. Existing as a pregnant person is expensive. It costs nearly as much as going to college easily. Many poor women cannot afford the medical care they need to ensure a healthy pregnancy and so they go without, potentially causing themselves and their children harm. The idea of “just carry it to term and put it up for adoption” is difficult to fathom because of the amount of pain and money that goes into being pregnant. Missed work days cannot be regained by putting the child up for adoption. Just because the child is not in your life for does not mean it has not affected it. Pro-life people tend to see pro-choice people as being heartless murderers but it is really about acknowledging that your experiences and opinions do not reflect those of everyone else in the world. It’s about recognizing that you and everyone else are individuals with your own lives. It’s about trying to understand that there is always more than one side to someone. Support each other instead of fighting over who is right. Aborting is difficult to go through, I’m sure, and those women do not need someone telling them they’ll go to Hell on top of it.

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