Pro-Choice or Pro-Life

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I suppose one could say I'm a practical pro-life. I'm not in support of abortions, but I'm against banning them. Instead, I believe in providing funding for as many services that offer support and options for women who need them, and just being supportive in general, because there is generally nuance to why women would seek abortions, and it's almost never simply a case of them being bad people, which pro-life people like to portray them as.

i believe that if an anti-abortionist was truly pro-life, they'd be all in favor of society helping to support the babies once they were born, but obviously [judging from the opinions of the GOP which is their de facto party] that is not the case. that tells me they have ulterior motives.

I'm fully pro-choice. There's many reasons why an abortion might be the best idea for the mother and/or the baby, and as long as it's done reasonably and safely I don't think anyone should have their ability to choose to have an abortion removed.

the framework of Roe was reasonably decided. Dobbs most assuredly was not.

I feel like I always have weird stories to share but here I go again.

I think I've told this one before anyway.

My maternal grandmother developed very serious complications when giving birth to her last child. She was in a Catholic hospital and the doctors told my grandfather they would have to let her die so that the baby could live. My granddad was reportedly sobbing and begging them to save my grandmother because they had other children at home who needed their mother, and he couldn't live without her himself. They told him that the baby's life was more important because it was innocent whereas my grandmother had most assuredly sinned in her life, and they wouldn't be able to save both.

Long story short but my grandmother did actually die shortly after my auntie was delivered. She came back to life (I know, weird ...), but if she hadn't had the miracle the hospital would have allowed her to die on the table.

Stuff like that terrifies me. I know today they would likely have the medical technology to save both or put them on life support, but I can't imagine valuing the baby's life over that of the mother.

that is HORRIBLE. makes me angry.

It is, at the very least, virtually impossible for both the baby and the mother to survive an ectopic pregnancy. How can a full-term baby survive in a Fallopian Tube, which is where virtually all ectopic fertilizations occur.

If that's not a "medical reason" for terminating a pregnancy, I don't know what is one.

I’m surprised by the results so far.

cruelty is the point of what they are doing.

I'm Pro-life. I believe that life is a gift from God that should be enjoyed by all and that everybody should have a birthday. I feel that it should be up to God who's born into the world and who isn't.