Okay, just one entry on politics.
Jan. 6th, 2012 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxWhat follows is a quoted comment from a discussion on Facebook that started about peace and love and descended into political screaming matches about women's bodily and reproductive autonomy. This was a comment on how to do things right. I don't know, maybe I'm just crazy, but this just makes so much sense that any argument against it feels pointless.
All parties remain anonymous.
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I get your point... and believe it or not, I actually agree that abortions are not always the best solution. But sometimes a woman with no support system feels that she has no other options. So if the idea of a couple of your tax pennies going to Planned Parenthood, which may or may not be used to fund abortions, bothers you... then here's what you can do about it: Donate what you can afford to spare to a charitable organization that provides free counseling, medical services, and/or a shelter for pregnant women in a bad situation. It doesn't matter if it's $10 of $1000... they'll give you a reciept. You take this receipt and come tax time you use it to claim that donation off of your taxes. Then, not only will you not have to possibly pay for part of an abortion, but you may have actually helped prevent one by giving a woman in a bad position a support system so that she feels she is not so alone.
Many non-medical/non-rape victim abortions are the result of desperation. Laws won't reduce the number of abortions that women in bad situations get... compassion and reaching out a helping hand to a woman (friend or stranger) in need is the only way to help her feel secure enough to think she has an option to keep the baby. You don't need a law to reduce the number of abortions... you just need to get society to stop blaming the women and start helping them. That starts with what we teach our children at home and in schools. If we teach them that sex is so dirty and shameful that we can't even explain it to them... they why are we surprised when they make a mistake of ignorance? Why are we surprised when teenage girls are more scared of telling their parents they got knocked up, than they are of getting an abortion? And if we, as a community (I'm not saying you personally), look the other way when a woman is abused by her spouse, how can we then judge her for not wanting to bring a child into that environment. And when nearly our entire culture calls women sluts for sleeping around while calling the guys they sleep with studs... how can we blame them for being ashamed of their pregnancies? If you want to reduce the number of abortions, then fight the system that derides and stigmatizes these women, instead of heaping more of the same on them.
Until our society stops blaming and punishing these women for their "sexual promiscuity", and starts reaching out a NON-JUDGEMENTAL hand... nothing will change.
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All parties remain anonymous.
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I get your point... and believe it or not, I actually agree that abortions are not always the best solution. But sometimes a woman with no support system feels that she has no other options. So if the idea of a couple of your tax pennies going to Planned Parenthood, which may or may not be used to fund abortions, bothers you... then here's what you can do about it: Donate what you can afford to spare to a charitable organization that provides free counseling, medical services, and/or a shelter for pregnant women in a bad situation. It doesn't matter if it's $10 of $1000... they'll give you a reciept. You take this receipt and come tax time you use it to claim that donation off of your taxes. Then, not only will you not have to possibly pay for part of an abortion, but you may have actually helped prevent one by giving a woman in a bad position a support system so that she feels she is not so alone.
Many non-medical/non-rape victim abortions are the result of desperation. Laws won't reduce the number of abortions that women in bad situations get... compassion and reaching out a helping hand to a woman (friend or stranger) in need is the only way to help her feel secure enough to think she has an option to keep the baby. You don't need a law to reduce the number of abortions... you just need to get society to stop blaming the women and start helping them. That starts with what we teach our children at home and in schools. If we teach them that sex is so dirty and shameful that we can't even explain it to them... they why are we surprised when they make a mistake of ignorance? Why are we surprised when teenage girls are more scared of telling their parents they got knocked up, than they are of getting an abortion? And if we, as a community (I'm not saying you personally), look the other way when a woman is abused by her spouse, how can we then judge her for not wanting to bring a child into that environment. And when nearly our entire culture calls women sluts for sleeping around while calling the guys they sleep with studs... how can we blame them for being ashamed of their pregnancies? If you want to reduce the number of abortions, then fight the system that derides and stigmatizes these women, instead of heaping more of the same on them.
Until our society stops blaming and punishing these women for their "sexual promiscuity", and starts reaching out a NON-JUDGEMENTAL hand... nothing will change.
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