Yes, any time I write something and don't explicitly say that I don't want to discuss it, I'm inviting discussion! :)
My first thought about your comment about how bad things (like being evicted from a uterus) happen to good fetuses/babies is that you can't apply the same logic to actual, born babies. I mean, yes, sometimes parents do kill their alive children. But it's totally illegal and should be. Even if the parents want autonomy in ending their parenthood, you know?
I mean, the reason that I'm pro-choice is that it's really different when the baby is actually inside your body because then there's the bodily autonomy issue. And because fetuses really are different from babies, radically so in the first trimester.
I think my main emotional struggle is that, actually meeting these sweet little Catholic grandmothers, I realized that it's rather ridiculous to expect them to calmly agree to disagree, or to focus on other issues we can all get behind (like taking care of the already born babies) when they really see it that they're fighting to protect the lives of innocent babies.
And it's easy for me to think, 'These people should give it a rest. This issue's been settled for almost 40 years.' But, you know, if Roe v. Wade had gone the other way, I'd still be fighting it.
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My first thought about your comment about how bad things (like being evicted from a uterus) happen to good fetuses/babies is that you can't apply the same logic to actual, born babies. I mean, yes, sometimes parents do kill their alive children. But it's totally illegal and should be. Even if the parents want autonomy in ending their parenthood, you know?
I mean, the reason that I'm pro-choice is that it's really different when the baby is actually inside your body because then there's the bodily autonomy issue. And because fetuses really are different from babies, radically so in the first trimester.
I think my main emotional struggle is that, actually meeting these sweet little Catholic grandmothers, I realized that it's rather ridiculous to expect them to calmly agree to disagree, or to focus on other issues we can all get behind (like taking care of the already born babies) when they really see it that they're fighting to protect the lives of innocent babies.
And it's easy for me to think, 'These people should give it a rest. This issue's been settled for almost 40 years.' But, you know, if Roe v. Wade had gone the other way, I'd still be fighting it.