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Oliver Hunt Apr 16, 2023

Sigh. I'm so tired of abortion access being purely in terms of "what about rape victims". A person shouldn't need to be raped to have the ability to make choices about their own body

Similarly a person shouldn't have to be in a "or they will die" position before they get to make choices about their body

Someone shouldn't lose the right to make choices about their body once they become "old enough to have a baby"

Fuck anyone who thinks they get to make choices about anyone else's body for them

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Ecthompsonmd Apr 16, 2023

@ohunt This debate needs to be framed like you were saying. Is a woman an American citizen? Yes or No. As an American citizen does a woman have the freedom to control her body? Can she refuse procedures that she doesn't want? Can she get procedures that she does want? Is a woman subservient to her fetus? Is the fetus more important than the woman?

Finally you should be able to shove your religious beliefs down our throats. If you don't believe in abortion then don't get one. #abortionrights

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Coach Pāṇini ®

@Ecthompsonmd @ohunt The reactionary framing of this is as old as organized society, but in America specifically, partus sequitur ventrem, which is only as old as the English colony named after a supposedly Virgin Queen.