I read another article, this one in CNN, about a Republican Ohio couple who needed an abortion for serious fetal defects & couldn't get one because of Ohio anti-abortion law.
I... have a very hard time feeling any sympathy for folks in that position.
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 fucking disgusting.
They asked for this. They fucking ASKED for exactly what they're getting. We fucking TOLD them what would happen, & of course they didn't listen, because they didn't see themselves as murdering irresponsible sluts. Nope, THEIR abortion is OK because Reasons(tm).
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.*
@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.
@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 NOW it's unfair? Because it affects YOU?" This describes a great deal of human behavior. "I lack empathy, so nothing is real until it happens to me."
It comes up a lot in conservative politics because conservative solutions are often punitive and attract people with limited empathy.
& 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?"