Usually I try to be very open minded about things, but I have a very hard time being neutral on a subject like this.
What gives anyone the right to criticize a woman for making a decision about her OWN body and her OWN life? Maybe I'm biased because I am a woman, but if I were ever in the situation where I needed to get an abortion, there is not a single person who could make me feel bad about making a decision that I know is right for myself.
Anyone who is pro-life, good for you, maybe that makes you a better person than me in the end, but your beliefs are your beliefs, and mine are mine.
Comparing abortion to genocide is extremely ridiculous and over the top. The reasons for aborting a fetus and committing genocide are not even on the same scale, so I really find it absurd to even compare the two.
I almost wonder, if many of these pro-life activists (the female ones, obviously) found themselves unwillingly pregnant, would they feel the same way that they do now? Its so easy to criticize something you've never experienced. I would imagine that if they actually found themselves in that situation, they would at LEAST like to have a choice. Or wait, why don't we go back just a few decades ago where women had no choice what so ever! Yay!
The thing about abortion is that its not just for "sluts and skanks" who get knocked up. There are so many reasons a woman might require an abortion. She could have been raped, or doctors may even advise her that for medical reasons its not safe for her to have a baby. So should she be forced to still carry a baby if it risks her own life? Also, even women who are extremely careful with birth control can end up pregnant. Should they be punished, even though they took every precaution? If they are using birth control, they obviously don't want a baby, so is it right for her to be forced to have the baby anyways? Who is that benefiting?
I have no shame in saying that if I were to get pregnant at this stage in my life, I would get an abortion. I'm still in university, I have so many things I still want to do before "settling down", and frankly, I am nowhere near ready to have kids. I am very careful with birth control, so if anything happened, it certainly wouldn't be due to lack of prevention methods.
Anyways, the point of this jumbled rant was just to say that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but pro-lifers have no right to make anyone who at least wants a CHOICE seem like a bad person. And vice versa... pro-lifers are free to their beliefs too, but they have no right to push them on themselves.
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