Blog for Choice 2013 – I Don’t Need Feelings, I Need Justice

Tuesday January 22 marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, as well as being Blog for Choice Day. This year’s theme for Blog for Choice is for writers to share their personal stories of why they’re pro-choice. I’m not feeling it. I’m not big on the personal stories, although I know that’s contrary to the current social media and campaigning-in-general gospel. There’s a reason my mom jokingly calls me Sheldor from time to time. My heartstrings don’t really get tugged like that, and I don’t really think the bodily autonomy of half the population should be up to whether other people get the feels or not. I don’t really get why people post pictures of smiling white babies, or images of fetuses with notes about when they get toenails, as anti-abortion propaganda, either. I don’t care if you think baby toenails are freaking adorable, that’s no reason to tell another person what they have to give their body over to. I get the idea behind it – that abortion has been so stigmatized, and women who get abortions so stereotyped, that finding out that they’re really your friends and relatives and neighbors and they had legit reasons to get abortions, that they had stories you could sympathize with, is supposed to be moving. Maybe it does convince some folks to bend a little on their anti-abortion beliefs – especially when we get the stories of women who die or nearly die for lack of a need...
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