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elainemorisi · 3 years ago

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"But what’s the point of acknowledging this now, at a time when abortion rights are so imperiled? For one thing, it would seem hard to deny that the euphemistic, apologetic, placatory “pro-choice” strategy hasn’t worked out thus far. So, why not risk coming out for what we actually want, namely, abortion—a clearly documented public good? The pending Supreme Court leak thrusts us into a situation in which we have little left to lose...

It is a hard pill to swallow for a misogynist society, sentimentally attached to its ideology of patriarchal motherhood, but the truth is that gestators should get to decide which bodies to give form to. This choosing is our prerogative. A desire not to be pregnant is sufficient reason in and of itself to terminate a gestatee...

Women are human, and as such can never be as innocent as the unborn. But innocence (as we see every time a police victim is described as “no angel” by the press) is a fundamentally inhumane category in politics, deriving from the most punitive interpretations of Christianity...

Fetishizing newness and sentimentalizing helplessness, pro-lifers pit themselves ruthlessly against the overwhelming majority of human life-in-particular... Anti-abortionists routinely sacrifice the health and happiness of actual persons in defense of the forced survival of potential ones. It is high time we went on the offensive against their sickening, sacrificial version of vitalism."

#I make no claims about in/effectiveness and don't much give a shit anymore #I'm mostly posting to remark that FUCKING DUH #pregnancy is a power trip #of fucking course it is it's CREATING LIFE what the fuck #that's the coolest fucking thing in the world and also OBVIOUSLY a power trip #I understand the patriarchy etc etc etc but that is just the straight up truth #anyone who actually thinks that should imply subservience to the createe is mind-bogglingly self-harming at best and ofc evil at worst #(while they're being created; in case it needs to be said pregnancy != parenting they are in this case REAL DIFFERENT THINGS)#and it's from much the same source as the ghoulish vitalism too right:#the attitude that [some/ethical/you know] power actually obliges its holder to sacrifice/service/etc #aka that power is itself intrinsically evil and helplessness is better than power #is imo basically sick not even for the very obvious there's always vile hypocrisy in those claims reasons #power should in many other cases obviously be balanced or curtailed or eliminated or etc etc etc #but actually?! power fucking exists and is not intrinsically this that or any thing except itself #pregnant people are not intrinsically obliged to sustain fetuses by virtue of having absolute power over them #but it is fucking WEIRD how baked into even nonconfrontational views of pregnancy that is tbh #into many things tbh #like if you have power over someone and don't wish to use that to sustain/etc them #you're not actually obliged to just stay there and suffer #you should in fact find a way to cease holding that power and allow someone else to do whatever it is instead #if it in fact needs doing which y'know sometimes it does (kids) and sometimes not so much #the twin refusals to acknowledge #a) just how much of that shit does not need doing (gestating fetuses included)#b) that no Certain Person needs to do the smaaaaall number of things that do need doing #is just... such stupidity that causes SO much suffering

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