When
people say “I’m not pro-life or pro-choice”
Citizens of
the Republic of Ireland have approved changing their constitution to be
pro-choice in a referendum.
Pro-choice:
women having the right to have an abortion if they choose to.
Pro-life:
opposing abortion and euthanasia.
This
is great news for women, giving them control over their own bodies. In a world full
of rules (as is only right), everyone should have full autonomy over their
body. Abortions are, of course, sad and terrible, but bringing an unwanted
child into the world isn’t sensible in the slightest.
Over the
course of the referendum, I saw people saying they were neither pro-life nor
pro-choice because, whilst they personally wouldn’t have an abortion, they
respected other people’s right to do so.
This is quite literally the
definition of pro-choice: respecting the choice of individual women, even if it’s
not the same choice you’d personally make.
So
these individuals claiming they’re in a grey area because they’re not pro-life
or pro-choice are in fact advocating that they are pro-choice.
When
people say “Don’t use abortion as a contraceptive”
People say
abortion shouldn’t be used as contraception. Yet in reality is abortion could
never be used as contraceptive. It can’t be done.
Contraception:
a method used to prevent pregnancy.
Abortion:
removing a foetus during pregnancy.
If contraception
is to prevent pregnancy from happening and abortion happens during pregnancy,
abortion cannot be a contraceptive. Prevention can’t be used to end something
because prevention means something doesn’t even start in the first place!
Unless,
grasping for some justification, abortions are involved in time-travel. Just
the silliness of this goes to show how ridiculous it is to claim abortion is a
contraceptive.
Of
course, the sentiment of “Don’t use abortion as a contraceptive” is clear: you
shouldn’t just throw a life away. However, what’s being said is not what’s
meant that can only cause problems in communication.
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