I’m well aware of the fact that abortion has their circumstances where they are necessary, and that it will always exist and should therefore be performed as safely as possible without risk towards the mother, as with unregulated back alley or coat hanger abortions. The problem I have, however, is against the inconsistencies and disingenuous attitude towards abortion itself, as with how we deal with the ”concept of conception”. Fundamentally, the abortion issue is about the fact that we’re choosing to terminate a person in order to make our lives easier. But we won’t admit it to ourselves, so we rationalize it in order to convince us that it’s ok;

We go to health and empathy – ”It would be ’easier’ or ’better’ for the child if it didn’t live, so it wouldn’t have to deal with the hardships that comes with having down’s syndrome, a poor upbringing, unfit parents or growing up in foster care.” But this argument fails when these dispositions are in no legitimate way deciding the child’s inherent right to a chance for a full and developing life. We cannot decide that, it’s borderline eugenics disguised as a health problem. What we’re really doing is implying that it would be better if children or adults who’s had these dispositions, which includes, me, alot of my friends and family, never actually deserved the chance to live from the start. That it would be better had we died before we could succeed and that the world doesn’t deserve the love and unique ideas and perspectives this child could’ve shared with the rest of the world had it been given the chance;

We go to technicalities – ”There’s a point when life actually becomes life, so life hasn’t begun yet by the time of the abortion.” But that argument fails when our definition of ”life” varies from moment to moment. We cannot call an embryo or a fetus under development (which is a human person’s first developmental stage followed by infant, toddler, teenager, adult, senior etc) ”a lump of cells” while refer to bacteria on Mars as life. Life is just that, organic potential, and we cannot choose to define life based on convenience. What we’re really doing is lying to ourselves to make our decisions easier to cope with, by convincing ourselves that it’s a medical procedure so we don’t feel any guilt for terminating children or responsibility for having unsafe sex. This doesn’t make anyone a bad person, it just makes them a normal person that’s being lied to or manipulated by semantics;

We go to rights – ”It’s about the woman’s right to her own body, and therefore it is her choice, and it stands to reason that obviously a woman should have full control of her own body.” No one in their right mind would oppose this. But that argument fails when the child’s body isn’t the same as the mother’s body. In no other animal kingdom or any biological sense do we view a fetus as the same individual animal as the carrier. It is its own, seperate, individual lifeform. What we’re really doing is actively associating pro-life sentiments with anti-women sentiments to make it political, when they aren’t the least bit related to eachother, not by any stretch of the imagination.

We then deprive the world of a person who would’ve affected hundreds, if not thousands or millions of lives, directly or indirectly, with their light and presence… because it would be ”better for the child”. Excuse me, but that’s not up to you and either of us have no right deciding the child’s right to live. It’s not about women’s rights, it’s not about what’s best for the child and it’s not about how we define life… it’s about the lack of responsibility, the easiest way out and normalized dehumanization for political gain.

It’s about some of your closest friends, who grew up in shit home circumstances and with medical difficulties, and grew up to become some of the funniest, most sincere, loving and honest people you’ve ever known. The unwanteds. You know… that one or two loveable friends of yours whom you believe never deserved the chance to live?