A Reaction to a Rant on Abortion

The issue of abortion has been pushed into the limelight once again when Alabama passed a bill to make abortion illegal. Other states like Georgia introduced a heartbeat bill which basically says you can't abort if you can sense a heartbeat.

Because of this the "medical experts" on social media have put forth their concerns about making abortion illegal. Twitter user @pinkrockopus went on a rant on Twitter and I'll try to go thru her objections. Original thread here: (https://twitter.com/pinkrocktopus/status/1111847344415363073?s=21&fbclid=IwAR3DCsbnEMWuoW2mdqwKJY4o1krIBSZg0KmojGw4FzNPHXHTb2F4Env6Uzo)

1. She has, "a genetic abnormality that prevents me from metabolizing folic acid... This bill will make it illegal for us (her and her husband) to abort a pregnancy that cannot possibly be viable." She went on to clarify that the child could suffer from anencephaly
• This can be tricky as the concern is with the child. This I can sympathize with but I cannot support. Anencephaly is NOT a death sentence. It may affect the quality of life of someone but death is obviously not preferable to living a life with a "lower standard". If you ask some abortion survivors, you'll even hear this from them, "How do you get to decide the quality of MY life?"
2. "If your religious practice or moral code justifies forcing a human to carry and bear a child, against their will and judgement, then your religion treats childbearing people as brood mares."
• This assumes that people are only against abortion due to religious reasons. But that's simply not the case. Secular Pro-life is an organization of atheist pro-lifers. This statement also assumes that pro-lifers want to force women to carry children to term. This is not the case. You'd call those pro-birth people. The pro-life position has only been that you cannot directly kill the unborn. The "forcing women to carry a baby" argument is simply a strawman argument meant to make the pro-life position look bad. It's on the same league as when pro-life people accuse the pro-choice movement of "Supporting murder!"
3. "100% of pregnancies are caused by ejaculation" and "Pregnancy is not caused by loose morals in women, short skirts on girls, .... It's caused by semen."
• Lol. This lady needs some basic biology. Men can masturbate all they want and ejaculate all they want and no one would be pregnant. Pregnancy is caused not by just semen or just the egg but by both. Without one of the ingredients, all you have are ingredients.
4. "HB481 is drafted in a way that criminalizes *miscarriages.*"
• I have yet to read the actual text of HB481 but from my understanding, it's only the abortionists who will get penalized by this law as the abortionist would be the aggressor to the fetus on the womb. In the case of miscarriages, there would be no aggressor. It would be like a person dying suddenly due to natural causes.
5. "You can't enjoy full personhood without complete bodily autonomy, ...
• Complete Bodily Autonomy - three words that only came together with the sole purpose of excluding the unborn. Before all this talk of abortion, people simply knew that a baby was in the womb of a woman when she was pregnant. The baby was where it needed to be to survive. Just like how you and I need a roof over our heads, the baby needs to be in her mother's womb.
6. "It's a medical procedure like a colonoscopy, ..."
• There's so much I can say about this but it isn't really. The movie Unplanned, for example, showed the closest thing you can to an actual abortion and it got an R rating. In a movie with no foul language, no horror scenes, no nudity, it had to have deemed abortion as an act of violence, which it really is. But not even taking that into consideration, let's consider a procedure that removes the appendix. It simply removes an appendix. An abortion is more like an eviction without notice where you forcibly remove one person from where they're supposed to be in their development.
7. "... don't come at me with how it's different because a colon polyp isn't a tiny sentient human like a fetus is."
• I will come at you at how different it is. Look at a polyp and look at a fetus. The fetus is distinct from the woman carrying her as she has her own set of human DNA, her own limbs, her own heart, her own blood type. That is not an abnormal growth or some other specie or an inflamed part of the woman's body. It simply isn't. If you still think that a baby in the womb is just a part of the woman's body, you'll have to admit that when a woman is pregnant, she has 20 fingers, 20 toes, 2 heads, 2 hearts, 2 blood types, and 50% of the time, she can even have a penis.
8. "Poor people are entitled to have children. Single people are entitled to have children ..."
• I've written about this long before but people aren't entitled to children at all. The opposite is true. Children are entitled to their parents. As such they need their parents to fight for their right no matter how small and helpless they are.
9. "Not all women have wombs. Not all people who have wombs are women."
• This is where we start to see the insanity in all of this. No society in the history of the world has ever held this belief. It is also scientifically incorrect. That is all.
10. "No waiting periods, no judge's permission, no parent sign-off, no absolutely ghoulish transvaginal ultrasound so you can see the zygote before you evict it."
• This cuts her own arguments in the previous lines. If it's simply a surgery like any other, why prevent parents from signing off on it? I had an operation when I was 8 and my parents had to sign off on that. Why not have them sign off on an abortion? Again, because abortion is NOT like any other surgical procedure. Also, why oppose an ultrasound. I truly believe that if you support abortion, you should be very well aware of what you're actually evicting from the womb. Google search 8 week old fetus and tell me that's not a person.
11. "The patriarchy" complaints.
• She then goes on a rant which basically says, "because men" not knowing that most people in the pro-life movement are women! And it makes sense that women would be more pro-life. Women are more nurturing and as such understand that while a man sees a small dot, she sees a child at the most vulnerable time of her life. This isn't a woman's rights issue. It's a human rights issue. And it's not their right to choose, it's their right to life.

If you're pro-choice, chances are I didn't convince you. But humor me. If you really think that abortion is still something we need, know what you're supporting. Know what an abortion entails and what it actually looks like.

Here's a link to a video I think will help. Watch it all the way through and tell me then that you still think there's nothing wrong with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFZDhM5Gwhk