& I know there have been a number of them, conservative couples who've appeared in the news over the past months, where they find themselves needing the very service they voted against.
I don't want to see anyone in a position where they have to abort & can't. And I still just... I don't know. Mostly I find myself thinking: "This is what you asked for with your vote. This is what you wanted. And NOW it's unfair? Because it affects YOU?"
I find myself thinking of every time I've been called a whore, a slut, a baby killer, a murderer, every single foul & vile insult you can think of, called those things by anti-abortion ppl again & again & again. I think of what abortion opponents proclaim to believe about abortion, that it's done by irresponsible leg-spreading sluts who want to fuck anything that moves & then murder their babies in some kind of joy at wanton destruction...
& then I look at these articles that are all about nice white middle-class couples, they're always daycare teachers or healthcare workers or pastors or some shit like that, they're always married & straight & trying hard to have a family or maybe they have kids & want more, they have some kind of job & profile that makes them *the right kind of people* for an abortion to be OK somehow...
It's more gracious to extend compassion. It's kinder to extend empathy. I know this. And what I really want to do is tell them: *You asked for this & you got what you wanted. So shut the fuck up & deal; this is the way it is now.*
@ProjectShadow I mean the sheer fecking AUDACITY is gobsmacking.
@Impious_Jade It's truly asinine on every possible level.
@Impious_Jade Exactly! This is the world they wanted. They live here, too. So, they can deal with it just as the rest of us have tol
@Impious_Jade And that's exactly what I would tell them. They made their bed, so now they get to lie in it.
They can fuck ALL the way off with their "woe is me" bullshit.