It is not justice to force a pregnant person into involuntary servitude for 9 months, risking her life and health. With no trial. No judge. No jury.
It is not justice to declare that the life and health of a living person is worth less than the fetus she carries. With no trial. No judge. No jury.
It is not justice to withhold life-saving surgery from a living person due to concern for the fetus she carries. With no trial. No judge. No jury.
It is PARTICULARLY not justice to do so when you are also working to allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense birth control.
It is PARTICULARLY not justice to do so when you are also working to prevent accurate sex education.
It is PARTICULARLY not justice to do so when you are working to cut funds to social services, day care, foster care.
...If we truly valued children, we would do everything in our power not to traumatize, deprive, or neglect them...
Until I see this, I won’t believe that “pro-lifers” care about life at all. I won’t believe that “family values” proponents care about families. And I won’t believe that those who seek to “protect” children care about children.
Matt Kailey at Womanist Musings
Oh! And in case you thought Choice is only about Abortion, here's a post that will better inform you.
And if you're interested in empowering young people to make reproductive choices that work for them, why not donate to NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Foundation (the second button, it's tax deductible!) and help with their mission in Petersburg, VA.
(crossposted at Loudoun Progress)
As a women who, in my 20's, got pregnant on TWO forms of birth control, and then later worked very hard to have two more kids in my 40's, I have faced discrimination from both pro-lifers and pro-choicers. As my husband was driving around the Obama headquarters parking lot with our two sleeping babies in the car, I was called a "baby killer", and as I cried over my first (unplanned) pregnancy, I was again called a baby killer for even daring to wonder what decision to make. I now have four children and celebrate a woman's right to choose to have children, or not. I celebrate a woman's right to be "pro life" as long as she doesn't condemn those that are not. It all boils down to choice -- the real issue is not pro-life or pro- choice, it is pro-choice or anti-choice.
ReplyDeleteThe important thing to remember about those whom some call "anti-choice" is that they are not anti-choice at all. Rather, they want to be the ones to make the choice for everybody else.
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