Date: 2005-07-29 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wurmwyd.livejournal.com
Hi There!

I agree with her, right up until she said that if your opinion is: "I'm pro-choice, but I am uncomfortable with... [third-trimester abortion / sex-selection / women who have multiple abortions / women who have abortions for "convenience" / etc.]", that you have an inherent distrust of women.

That is my opinion exactly. I believe that I personally will never have to HAVE an abortion, so I have no say in who does or does not have an abortion. But I'm uncomfortable with women who use abortion as birth control. Should we then have every woman that has an abortion fill out long wordy: "Is abortion right for you?" forms? Hell no! My lack of comfort in women who have abortions out of convenience should have no bearing on the law. I'm just uncomfortable with it.

Does this mean that I don't trust women? How is that not a sexists statement? I don't trust people. I wouldn't trust Britney Spears to perform open-heart surgery on me. Because she's female? No, but because I don't generally trust people that aren't qualified to perform open-heart surgery! I believe in the legalization of drugs, but I wouldn't feel comfortable giving Courtney Love free heroin and painkillers. Not because she's a woman, but because I know she's had problems with it in the past, and because she has a daughter. (who's probably like 25 years old by now, for all I know, but...)

The only reason anyone who identifies as pro-choice would be uncomfortable with women having convenience/third-trimester/sex-selection abortions is because, well, it's only women having abortions right now, isn't it? When men can get pregnant, I will be uncomfortable with GUYS who get abortions "just so they don't have to put up with some screamin' brat".

Again, I'd never put "conditions" on women having abortions, but sometimes I just reserve the right to be uncomfortable with them.

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