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I had to share because I am laughing SO HARD! This is awesome. I'm somewhat touched by one of the comments on the youtube site that "LOL! You gotta hand it to the young... They are more creative in heir forms of protest!"
There is a generation gap between today's young adults and those who fought for women's lib in the sixties, because my generation has grown up with the idea that these battles were already won. I continue to be shocked and horrified by the "redefinitions" of pregancy and abortion that are getting put out there, particularly because I don't think this conflict is actually about abortion and access to it, it is about limiting access to birth control. The extreme problem with doing so is that without access to birth control, not only is it much more difficult for women to express and contol and practice their sexuality safely and consciously, it suddenly becomes difficult to control our lives. Having an unplanned pregnancy is hard enough, and making the decision to terminate it, and also not to terminate it, is fraught and difficult. I can't imagine not having access to the health care I need to be ABLE to make that choice. A full term pregnancy means time off of work, with or without insurance, the possibility of complications, significant changes to the body, some of which are permanent and many of which are unpredictable. All this even if she decides to put the baby up for adoption, which again, is a fraught and hard decision to have to make even when it is the best choice for all involved. Keeping a baby from an unplanned pregnancy means other huge life changes. Limiting birth control options will have the direct effect of limiting what women can do and be in their lives, and crucially, such limits make it impossible to control when to have children as well as if. It seems like the far right has forgotten this fact.
I need these options. I will not live my life in abstinence and fear; to do so is to allow someone else to control me, and that is unacceptable.
There is a generation gap between today's young adults and those who fought for women's lib in the sixties, because my generation has grown up with the idea that these battles were already won. I continue to be shocked and horrified by the "redefinitions" of pregancy and abortion that are getting put out there, particularly because I don't think this conflict is actually about abortion and access to it, it is about limiting access to birth control. The extreme problem with doing so is that without access to birth control, not only is it much more difficult for women to express and contol and practice their sexuality safely and consciously, it suddenly becomes difficult to control our lives. Having an unplanned pregnancy is hard enough, and making the decision to terminate it, and also not to terminate it, is fraught and difficult. I can't imagine not having access to the health care I need to be ABLE to make that choice. A full term pregnancy means time off of work, with or without insurance, the possibility of complications, significant changes to the body, some of which are permanent and many of which are unpredictable. All this even if she decides to put the baby up for adoption, which again, is a fraught and hard decision to have to make even when it is the best choice for all involved. Keeping a baby from an unplanned pregnancy means other huge life changes. Limiting birth control options will have the direct effect of limiting what women can do and be in their lives, and crucially, such limits make it impossible to control when to have children as well as if. It seems like the far right has forgotten this fact.
I need these options. I will not live my life in abstinence and fear; to do so is to allow someone else to control me, and that is unacceptable.
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