General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: The Progressive Abortion Purity Test [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)But that shouldn't be relevant when talking about the law. People have a variety of feelings after lots of decisions in their lives. But we can't keep knocking abortion like it's this horrible thing we barely can tolerate while our rights are being chipped away. Abortion has helped millions of women regain control of their lives.
Presenting abortion as "It's awful but it should be legal anyway" isn't a great strategy. It isn't awful - many women feel great relief after having an abortion. And of course some women have a hard time, but some women have a hard time with pregnancy and birth too. And some of the hard time women have is because we've created this aura of guilt and shame around abortion, not because of the abortion itself.
I'm very tired of hearing people talk about abortion being a horrible thing but ok well I guess having it be legal is something that has to be even though it's so awful and terrible. I'm not going to sit back and read that here. That attitude feeds the anti-choice movement, and we need to stop feeding that movement.