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kjpepper
This has always been a difficult thing for me. Those of you that actually know the interesting tale of my existance and why I was actually born at Yale New Haven Hospital instead of in New York City as expected may understand why. I mean, I'm constantly reading those angry-making Readers Digest humanitarian effort stories that are all like OMG I am so PRO LIFE because if my parents didn't CHOOSE LIFE in ($fucked_up_scenario_29387481) then I wouldn't exist to constantly annoy you by giving it up for jesus's pro life glory.
You know, that's ass stupid. I'm guessing that considering the circumstances, I very well could have ended up not being here to bitch and whine at all of you and the Internet on a nearly daily basis. However, I was actually wanted., which I think makes all the difference. There are already too many unwanted children running around out there without taking all the means necessary to ensure that there aren't any more, by any means of birth control necessary including abortion. There are all sorts of reasons why it may be a good idea to terminate a pregnancy, both for the benefit of the mother and for the benefit of the proto-baby. However, it's nobody's business what the reason is. Abortion is a medical procedure that should be available to everyone (well everyone with a uterus) that wants or needs one, no questions asked. Don't get me started that if the majority of our school systems were actually teaching practical sex education above and beyond "Jesus will hate you if you do this so DON'T," maybe we wouldn't need legal abortion so much. But that's an entirely other rant.
The other thing that pisses me off? Pro-abortion, pro-choice, and pro-life are three distinctly different things. Pro abortion means you are for abortion in any and all situations. That is ass stupid. Nobody in their right mind WANTS to have an abortion. There is so much bullshit associated with having one, and "Dilation and Cutterage" just really doesn't seem like a fun reason to take off work next Wednesday. Even EC and RU486 are pretty nasty propositions - people are under the impression that you pop a pill and everything's magically changed to fairy farts and roses and poof no more baby. No. Both drugs make you violently sick; it's not fun at ALL. But all that aside, choosing to have an abortion is probably the most painful decision a woman ever has to make in her life. One of the reasons I'll probably never have one is because I know I couldn't handle it. So people conflating pro-abortion and pro-choice need to seriously Shut℠ The Fuck™ Up®
Pro-choice means exactly that - preserving the option of choosing to terminate your pregnancy or carry it to term. I personally, for reasons stated above and other ones, would choose not to have one, but I am rabidly supportive of having that second option there. I like to know I have the right to change my mind.
And then there's pro-lifers... I mean the real ones, not the people who say they're pro life but in reality think like I do (and by the way, need to get smacked with the WTF stick). How arrogant and self righteous do you have to be to believe that other people should be legislated into agreeing with you?
Long story short: Pro-choice!=Pro-abortion. "I wouldn't necessarily choose an abortion" is not necessarily = Pro-life. "I support abortion but I wouldn't have one" DEFINITELY != Pro-Life. HOWEVER - now this one's important, kids: "I support abortion, but only in the case of (x,y,z)" IS NOT PRO CHOICE. No. Hell, no. I don't hold with the "only in certain circumstances" bullshit, because then you get into needing to prove that you actually need one and there's a sack of shit right there. Don't even get me started on needing parental consent. Shit. I knew at least two or three people growing up who would be DEAD right now if they had to get consent from their parents for an abortion. I am fucking serious.
So yeah I'm pro-choice. What's your excuse?
