A few weeks ago I shared a friends thoughts on everything happening with women’s rights. Now it’s time for mine.
A letter to the people with a ‘Vote Yes’ sign in your yard:
I don’t know who you are.
You are a complete stranger to me.
I don’t know your names or how old you are.
I don’t know where you are from or what you do for a living.
I don’t know your kid’s names…or if you even have kids.
I don’t know what you do for fun, what your favorite color is, or your favorite food.
I know NOTHING about you.
And do you know what? You know nothing about me. You know nothing about my family or the choices we’ve made in life.
So why do you feel like you get to choose what happens to my body?
This is not a hypothetical question.
What do you think gives you the right to make choices for MY body?
I’ll pause while you try and come up with an answer.
To those of you reading this that do know me…do you not trust me enough that Justin and I will make the decision of what is best for us?
You may be a friend, or family member, but you aren’t my husband so stay out of my uterus.
As a mother, as someone who has been through pregnancy and child birth, I feel even stronger about the right to an abortion.
Why and when did abortion become such a big topic? Why are unborn children so much more important than the living ones?
Anyone that votes to ban abortions should immediately be signed up to adopt a child, since there are so many children without homes. Of course you would be signed up without choice, since that’s what you are doing to us. But honestly… they might be better off where they are than with you.
I really want to bring up school shootings and gun control, but there is plenty of discussion about that so instead… Let’s talk about rape.
In an interview it was mentioned that around 6,000 women a year get abortions in the 3rd trimester. Can we talk instead about the 32,000 rape-related pregnancies in the country every year?
Some will say that rape is an excuse, and sometimes it’s girls who have careless sex and a baby is a consequence of sex and they need to accept the consequences. Why does her sex life effect you? Are you willing to pay her medical bills? Are you willing to adopt her baby? Are you willing to babysit for free and pay for her school so she can try and continue building her life? No? Then shut up. Sit down and shut the fuck up.
Maybe it’s the husband and wife of 15 years that already have 6 children whose health insurance went to shit and they can’t afford birth control, but they also can’t afford having one more mouth to feed? Should they just not have sex for the next 10, 15, 20 years until she is no longer ‘of child bearing age’?
Maybe we should consider forcing boys to get vasectomies when they hit puberty, normally around 11 years old. It can be reversed and that would help reduce a very large number of unwanted pregnancies. No? Okay then.
So to those of you with the “Vote Yes” signs, I know I won’t change your mind just like you won’t change mine, but I have to ask one more time…
What gives you the fucking right to MY GODDAMN BODY?
It sure as hell isn’t your God. I think your God left a long time ago.
