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Strelnikov_

(7,772 posts)
Wed May 4, 2022, 06:59 PM May 2022

I'm not pro-murdering babies.

"I'm not pro-murdering babies.


I'm pro-Becky who found out at her 20 week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs.


I'm pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in her when she got a positive pregnancy test result a month later.


I'm pro-Theresa who hemorrhaged due to a placental abruption, causing her parents, spouse, and children to have to make the impossible decision on whether to save her or her unborn child.


I'm pro-little Cathy who had her innocence ripped away from her by someone she should have been able to trust and her 11 year old body isn't mature enough to bear the consequence of that betrayal.


I'm pro-Melissa who's working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty or feeding the children she already has because her spouse walked out on her.


I'm pro-Brittany who realizes that she is in no way financially, emotionally, or physically able to raise a child.


I'm pro-Emily who went through IVF, ending up with SIX viable implanted eggs requiring selective reduction in order to ensure the safety of her and a SAFE amount of fetuses.


I'm pro-Jessica who is FINALLY getting the strength to get away from her physically abusive spouse only to find out that she is carrying the monster's child.


I'm pro-Vanessa who went into her confirmation appointment after YEARS of trying to conceive only to hear silence where there should be a heartbeat.


I'm pro-Lindsay who lost her virginity in her sophomore year with a broken condom and now has to choose whether to be a teenage mom or just a teenager.


I'm pro-Courtney who just found out she's already 13 weeks along, but the egg never made it out of her fallopian tube so either she terminates the pregnancy or risks dying from internal bleeding.


I’m pro-Jaime who is non-binary or AFAB and will be at significantly higher risk of suicide going through the body dysphoria of a pregnancy, on top of gender dysphoria.


You can argue and say that I'm pro-choice all you want, but the truth is:


I'm pro-life.
Their lives.
Women's lives.

You don't get to pick and choose which scenarios should be accepted.


It's not about which stories you don't agree with. It's about fighting for the women in the stories that you do agree with and the CHOICE that was made.


Women's rights are meant to protect ALL women, regardless of their situation!


COPIED & PASTED...because whoever wrote this, said it better than I could..."
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I'm not pro-murdering babies. (Original Post) Strelnikov_ May 2022 OP
Fetuses aren't babies. roamer65 May 2022 #1
I am fully behind choice, Groundhawg May 2022 #4
I had multiple miscarriages forthemiddle May 2022 #5
Good reasons and rationales....I am partial to this one: Moostache May 2022 #2
For me above all else: IT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!! Thank you. LakeArenal May 2022 #3
Screw that. Jirel May 2022 #6

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
1. Fetuses aren't babies.
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:03 PM
May 2022

Babies are out of the womb using their own lungs to breathe.

That rankles anti-choice morons when I say it, but it’s true.

Groundhawg

(556 posts)
4. I am fully behind choice,
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:32 PM
May 2022

But when it the last time you ever heard an expectant mother say she was carrying a fetus?

Don't report me, I am pro choice, But i love my babies.

forthemiddle

(1,382 posts)
5. I had multiple miscarriages
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:44 PM
May 2022

And they were my babies!
They weren’t just fetuses to me. I mourned them, and I still grieve almost 30 years later.
Please don’t diminish my feelings by claiming I’m using right wing language.
Let each person define their loss (whether intentional or not) with their own language.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
2. Good reasons and rationales....I am partial to this one:
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:03 PM
May 2022

When it is legal to walk up to a man and demand that he give up his testicles and bodily autonomy because a religious zealot court decided it was every woman's right to do so....THEN and ONLY THEN will I entertain any discussion about the state's right to enforce pregnancies on a woman.

Until the balls are handed over, the uterus is off the table.

LakeArenal

(28,846 posts)
3. For me above all else: IT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!! Thank you.
Wed May 4, 2022, 07:03 PM
May 2022

Only a woman’s with a safe secure abortion provider.

Jirel

(2,025 posts)
6. Screw that.
Wed May 4, 2022, 08:00 PM
May 2022

If you insist on calling a fetus a baby, then I’m 100% for murdering babies.

I have ceased to give a f*** about placating the rabid animals of the right wing. I’m for women removing fetuses, no questions asked, whatever you call them, however it’s done. Every time we use some mealy-mouthed pandering line like “I’m not for killing babies,” we play into their language and their politics.

Period.

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