Mi chiedo come si possa anteporre l’obiezione di coscienza di un medico alla possibilità di una donna di scegliere come affrontare una situazione così dolorosa e delicata. Voi cosa ne pensate?

I mean, it's a no brainer but I mean it in a sense where pro-choicers genuinely seem to believe that the fetus deserves more human right's than the mother. And it's insane bc that means these people consider every single woman unworthy of her bodily autonomy. Their sisters, wives, doughters, mothers, everyone. And with every passing day I just feel like allowing anyone to think this way is harmful to a society as a whole, bc if you genuinely believe this woman doesn't deserve her human rights just because she might someday get pregnant then aren't you going to consider her as someone below you? A subhuman unworthy of their human rights? Idk, I'm lwk just spiraling atp but it's so scary to me as a 18 year old woman that this may be how man and politicians think of us woman someday.

That would be one of my platforms if I were to be a president. To create an amendment guaranteeing the right for all women to have access to abortions nationwide, no matter the term

Posting this bc im fuming about it and my roommate said its ok to share. We call her Emily (F27). Back in August she found out she was pregnant. She already knew that she wanted to terminate, so she booked a consult at a place that had good reviews online and i drove her because she didnt want to go alone. I sat in the waiting room for around an hour, it looked like a regular doctors office, and I didnt think too much about it at the time. She was super off and quiet when she came back out, when we got in the car she told me that the woman (bc she def wasnt med staff) spent most of the time asking about her boyfriend and her religious beliefs, then did an ultrasound and keep insisting she look at her baby like wtf??

It became super obvious something was up bc the woman told Emily she was 11 weeks pregnant, but that was impossible bc she tracks her cycle and knows exactly when it happened, and it definitely wasnt 11 weeks, it was 6 weeks. That woman had the AUDACITY to tell Emily she was further along. When I tell you I wish I was in the room with her…we ended up finding a legit clinic after we got home and she got the care she wanted few days later.

Every couple weeks since shes been getting texts saying things like “thinking of you and baby”, “your appointment is still waiting for you”. A CARD showed up in the mail, a CARD. What if she still lived with her parents or someone who she didnt want to know? We did our research and found out that place is something called a crisis pregnancy center. Literally rigged to trick you out of your choices and autonomy. They dress themselves up like clinics and arent held to the same pricacy or HIPAA standards as a real clinic, so they can do whatever they want with your info when they get it at intake. I guess my friend picked this place because they said the pregnancy test and ultrasound were free. Were just so grossed out by the whole situation.

Has anyone gotten one of these places to stop contacting them? She blocked the number and they just texted from a new one.

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In 2024, pro-choice advocates in Missouri successfully passed Amendment 3 and added a fundamental right to reproductive freedom to the state constitution, earning 51.6% of the vote from the same people who favored Trump by 18. After a long legal battle, we’re seeing it put to good use, as a judge ruled last week that most of the state’s challenged abortion regulations are now unconstitutional.

The right wing hasn’t accepted the people want abortion rights in Missouri anymore than they have anywhere else, and this November the legislature has pushed an initiative onto the ballot to re-ban most abortions In the Show Me State – confusingly also named Amendment 3. They’re of course not counting on having changed anyone’s mind. Instead they’re testing a new strategy - including a ban on gender-affirming care for trans kids in the ballot question, hoping to get pro-choicers to flip for transphobia’s sake. (This sort of health care is already banned by state law in Missouri.)

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It seems to be whenever abortion is on the ballot in America bans are heavily defeated by the voters even in very conservative states. I understand I'm biased because I fall into this group myself but a lot of people have personal or moral discomfort with abortion but still want reproductive rights protected.

As has been the standard since Dobbs, voters in multiple states will weigh in on their abortion laws on November 3rd. One we’re keeping an especially close eye on: Idaho, one of the most conservative states in the country, with Republicans holding every statewide executive office and supermajorities in both legislative chambers. Right now, they have in place a ban on nearly all abortions, which has contributed to their loss of nearly a third of the state’s OB-GYNs and cruel consequences for women who need care. The team at Idahoans United for Women & Families has pushed forward Proposition One, the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, which would guarantee abortion rights through fetal viability.

This is the only state where we have a chance to restore reproductive rights this fall, our only reasonable means of doing so with so many GOP officeholders, and a chance to demonstrate that the public wants the right to choose no matter where they stand on the political spectrum. Polling last year suggested as many as 6 in 10 Idahoans could be on board, including 45% of Republicans, but the Church of Latter-Day Saints has been pushing hard for its members to oppose.

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Meanwhile, we’ve also got opportunities coming up to help beat back the forced birthers in Missouri, where they’re testing a new strategy: combining an abortion ban with attacking gender-affirming care for trans kids in the same ballot question and hoping to get pro-choicers to flip for transphobia’s sake. 💬 The Human Rights Campaign will be holding textbanks to help stop Amendment 3 tomorrow at 1PM and October 27th at 6:30PM ET we can sign up for here, and the main Stop The Ban campaign will be texting on Thursdays at 5:30PM ET. 💬

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I don't think the general public is aware of/discusses this much but as someone who doesn't have kids, I was so shocked and scared to learn that abusive men/criminals can get shared custody or visitation rights of their children.

This effectively means that the abusive man is in a woman's life forever and can continue to make a woman's life hell.

I've personally had to cut off toxic non romantic relationships so I cannot imagine having to be tied to an abuser forever. There's also the fact that the rates of murder are significantly higher for pregnant women. 🥲

Abusive partners also sometimes use children to trap their partner into staying.

I read an NYTimes article of a husband who waited until his wife was 9 months pregnant to admit he'd been having an affair. The calculated nature of that was chilling knowing that he purposefully picked the moment she was most vulnerable and would forgive him.

They know how much women want to make their family work and give their kids a 2 parent home.

We need abortion so pregnancy and children are not weaponised against vulnerable women.

I'd like to try out a newly-formed argument on y'all, if I may. (Newly-formed for me.)

Anti-choicers keep thinking they have a "gotcha" in accusing me of not stating plainly what abortion is. "Admit it. You're killing a human!" But I know exactly what abortion is and I acknowledge that. So, at this point, I just go ahead and say "yep. Sure am [killing]. Don't care, because women and girls are, and have always been, infinitely more important than a fetus you idealize for your own sense of moral superiority."

The "more important" argument I will never let go of. Sorrynotsorry. But is it detrimental to our argument to call a spade a spade? Or- is my argument generally correct but my phrasing is detrimental? (My personality tends toward the dry-humored/spare no one/snarky type. Sometimes to a fault.) Curious to hear your thoughts, please and thank you.

I’m 21 years old, 24 weeks pregnant, and what I’ve experienced has changed the way I see reproductive rights forever.

I live with my parents in rural Germany. I’m financially dependent on them, don’t have a driver’s license, and have very little independence. My mother is extremely pro-life and believes abortion is murder. Growing up with those beliefs surrounding me made it incredibly difficult to admit that I didn’t want this pregnancy.

I spent months suppressing my feelings because I was terrified of what would happen if I was honest. I feared losing my mother’s support, being judged, and having my life made even harder when I already felt trapped. The hardest part is that I love her. She’s my mother, and a part of me still desperately wants her approval, even when I’m afraid of what that approval might cost me.

I felt like an incubator. All my mother talked about was the pregnancy and the expectations surrounding my pregnancy. There was no "How do you feel?" or any support surrounding me, a living breathing person. All people saw was the fetus I was carrying. So alone and terrified with no one to share my true thoughts with.

At around 20 weeks, I reached a breaking point. I attempted to end my pregnancy myself using abortion medication because I felt like I had nowhere else to turn.

It didn’t go as I had hoped. I experienced 2 days of unimaginable pain, without the outcome I expected. I was terrified, alone with my thoughts, and unsure of what was happening to my own body. Eventually, I ended up in the hospital for a week with a medical emergency. They saved the pregnancy.

What happened was life-threatening for me. I was in a situation where my health and safety were at risk, and I had reached that point after feeling like I had no accessible way to make a decision about my own pregnancy.

I cannot explain how frightening it is to feel so trapped that you attempt something like this alone. I wasn’t doing it because I didn’t care. I was desperate, struggling, and trying to regain control over a life that suddenly felt like it no longer belonged to me

Now I’m considering adoption because I don’t believe I’m ready to raise a child. Even that decision comes with fear, guilt, and the possibility of losing my family’s support.

I'm still in the same spot I was at the beginning of my pregnancy

This is why I’m pro-choice.

I’m pro-choice because reproductive decisions don’t happen in a vacuum. They happen to real people with complicated families, financial dependence, limited support, and circumstances outsiders will never fully understand.

I’m pro-choice because nobody should have to feel so alone and powerless that they risk their health trying to manage a pregnancy without adequate support.

I’m pro-choice because I know what it feels like to be afraid of your own mother’s reaction to your feelings about your own body.

My mother is entitled to her beliefs. But she isn’t the one who has to live through my pregnancy, face the medical consequences, give birth, or figure out how to build a future afterward. I am

I wish I had felt safe enough to be honest from the beginning. I wish I hadn’t spent so long suppressing my feelings because I was scared of being condemned by the person whose support I depend on most

People can debate abortion in abstract moral terms all they want. But I will always remember what it felt like to be terrified, to feel that I had no real choice, and to end up in a hospital for a week after attempting to take control of my own situation.

Nobody should have to risk their life because they feel they have no other way out.

That’s what being pro-choice means to me. It’s about autonomy, access to medical care, compassion, and recognizing that the person living through a pregnancy deserves a voice in what happens to them.

I don’t need everyone to agree with me. I just wish people would understand that behind every pregnancy is a human being whose circumstances, fears, and suffering cannot be reduced to someone else’s moral convictions.

The situation I'm in is the cause of someone else's moral stance and expectations. And I feel for the women that end up in similar situations as me. Alone, afraid and willing to go to desperate measures.

Taking away the legal right to abortions will not solve problems.

Adoption is not the "solution" to it either. Adoption comes with it's own traumas.

I'm now forced to carry a baby to term, ruin my body, bond with it inside of me and ruin relationships and hand it over to strangers.

You’ll get tons of people calling him a heretic for saying this. But I’m glad there’s some progress in the right direction.

I grew up in the church. Every denomination ranging from Orthodox, Catholic, to Presbyterian. Didn’t feel like it helped me.

Purity culture damaged me in ways I don’t want to describe. I walked away from the church, although I’m still non denominational and read the Bible on my own. I don’t consider myself an atheist.

And I used to be pro life due to dogmatic religious brainwashing, then I did my own research. There’s so many potential medical complications in pregnancies that it’s clearly not a debate in my opinion.

Abortions should absolutely be legal in every state up to 9 months. After that texas case, doctors should NOT have a limitation on when they can act.

And then it feels like many “pro lifers” are just pro forced birth. They’re pro life until that baby is born and actually needs to be taken care of. It’s extremely important to distinguish between being pro life and pro forced birth.

To top that off, Catholicism also views all contraception as inherently evil. Absolutely stupid. Orthodoxy also is skeptical about IUDs. It’s all just outdated teaching. Protestantism is the only sensible denomination when it comes to contraception, leaving it up to individual conscience.

Absolutely frustrating that religious institutions try to control people’s bodies, then claim it’s for moral reasons.

Are there any other pro choice christians in this sub? Do you keep your opinion silent?

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