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America's War On Abortion

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yourhairiswinterfire · 29/10/2020 23:47

I'm just watching this on ITV, I don't know if it's a repeat, but God, it's so upsetting.

Pro-lifers pitch up everyday outside an abortion clinic in Alabama shouting abuse through megaphones at the women attending, calling them whores, sluts, ''look at the way she's dressed, showing her legs'', murderers, they deserve to bleed to death... It's just absolutely awful. The only positive is that there are volunteers who shield the women from view of the protesters with opened umbrellas as they make their way into the clinic.

One of the women had an abortion because her baby boy likely wouldn't survive, she was devastated, and she had to go through vile pricks hurling insults at her as she was making probably the hardest, most painful decision of her life :(

The campaigners racially abused the presenter, Deeyah Khan, and told her she'd probably get raped that night because of the jeans she was wearing. She bravely confronted them, and they told her ''we're not letting women speak right now''. Angry

I'm just furious watching it. So, so angry on behalf of those women. Men thinking they own women's bodies, and some of their wives in tow, proudly declaring that they ''obey'' their husbands.

Absolute woman hating bastards, shouting 'the land of the free' whilst shaming and protesting women's freedoms.

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yourhairiswinterfire · 30/10/2020 00:15

Apologies for the typo in the title, should be America's.

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MiladyRenata · 30/10/2020 00:14

I'm trying to think of an analogy. Suppose your blood uniquely has antibodies in it that cure Covid-19.

Can you sell it to the highest bidder? Hell yeah!

Can it be taken from you by force if you say no? Nope. It's called self ownership, and its the basis of any civilized society.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 30/10/2020 00:12

It's infuriating watching all these men speak about what women should do with their bodies.

MiladyRenata · 30/10/2020 00:10

I don't understand why this is even a debate. Nobody owns or controls your body except you.

MrsTerryPratchett · 30/10/2020 00:07

Absolute woman hating bastards, shouting 'the land of the free' whilst shaming and protesting women's freedoms.

To quote Rage Against the Machine, "Land of the Free? Whoever told you that is your enemy."

As well as the very clear war on women, what pisses me off is statistics. If you don't like abortions, if you want to minimise them, what you do is make women's lives easier. Free, available contraception, pro-female law, good childcare provision, great maternity leave, decent healthcare available widely, and yes free, available abortion. Places where it is the most illegal, HAVE THE MOST. Places with free legal abortion HAVE THE LEAST. Because it turns out that when you treat women as humans, who make good choices, they'd rather plan their families.

Make it illegal (which I think they will now in the US) see how many abortions you have. Canada will have clinics lined up against the border to start with.

InFlagranteDerelicto · 30/10/2020 00:00

Absolutely agree. I could never have an abortion unless the baby was unlikely to survive, but that's my choice & other women should be allowed to make their own choices. It's a scandal that women struggling with partial MCs, & carrying foetuses that have conditions that are incompatible with life, have to put up with this abuse from these monsters in the name of religion. It's a scandal that anyone should have to. None of those protesters know the individual women's circumstances.

And "Land Of The Free" is a crock of shit. It should be renamed Land Of The Bankrupt. If we're talking about healthcare costs. Or morals of the current presidency.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 29/10/2020 23:59

America is terrifying for women.

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