The rest of us. .... Not so much.
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Sort of. Dated a pro-life woman who’d had an abortion.
That sounds on par for course. They have a valod reason, but other people that do it don't and are terrible people.
That sounds like a story
Not really. She was pregnant before she was ready to have a kid and aborted it. She didn’t feel like others should be allowed the same grace.
Didn’t even feel particularly bad about the hypocrisy.
Someone will soon link the “Mine Is The Only Moral Abortion” article. Can confirm — it’s real.
Ah, you dated my mother in the 80s, how does it feel to be old af?
Haha, I kid. But legit, when I brought up her hypocrisy, her answer was: "Yes but people have more options now, so they shouldn't be getting pregnant as easily."
And then when I pointed out that only people with access have more options, not poor people, her answer was: "Okay, well, a $15 box of condoms is STILL cheaper than a $300 abortion, so you're still wrong."i
The fucking sheer audacity.
And birth control methods never fail ever. Never.
Sure.....
Bruh, apparently those are statisical anomalies that "don't count" for some reason. As though the fact that it might be fewer women affected makes their suffering less somehow.
I don't get it either. I'm a childfree lady by choice myself, and I don't understand why she's trying to set up a worse future for my niece (and nephews! I'm sure they wpuldn't want to pay child support at a young age either!) Her logic is fucking bizarre.
Where does she live that an abortion os $300
She pulled that number out of her ass. Or it might have been what her abortion cost in the 80s, Idk.
Her "point" (if you can call it that) was that poor people should be proactively planning by using cheaper birth control methods over asking for a more expensive procedure that she doesn't think should be available to begin with.
She completely ignores all the other factors that could come into play between someone strapped for cash choosing condoms/diaphragms/etc versus foregoing them. I also asked if home schooled girls should be made to bear the burden of pregnancy if their parents didnt teach her about safe sex, and of course the answer was "the internet exists."
I've genuinely never met more frustrating people than alt-right Christians.
Maybe sometimes ne can explain the psychology of this... It is boggling my mind.
There was some Republicans woman who came to the university campus I was at to "debate" abortion. She had a lot of straight up lies about the biology aspect.
But she also had previously had an abortion herself.
And she had like 7 kids.
She also didn't think women should be allowed to vote.
But here she was. Using her feminist freedoms to travel around, instead of being home with her kids and husband, to speak lies and harm girls. To take away their right to choose even tho she herself had an abortion.
Rights for me but not for thee.
Here’s the article I alluded to: https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
I’m not sure it explains it, but it dives into the phenomenon.
My best guess is that it’s similar to how people feel they are good drivers and can use their phones while driving but no one else should. Or driving drunk. “Just this once is okay. I’ll be careful.”
The critical thing to understand is that this isn’t a change of heart. There’s no real regret here. It’s “it was okay for me but not for you.”