Centura Health bought out my OB/GYN doctor's office and does not allow doctors to prescribe birth control on the basis of contraception alone.

Right. Like pro choice people don't care about their kids and that's why they support choice? Or wait, they don't care if they were born so that's why they support choice? Or is it that they think abortions are lovely so that's why they support choice?

You're not the only person who likes being alive, thinks their kids are great, and is sad when viable fetuses can't find a welcoming environment to grow.

The difference between you and I is not that I'm a monster who doesn't love children. It's that I love women. I respect them as fellow people with the right to be gatekeepers of their own bodies.

I love adult women and I want them to be okay. I want them to not die. I want them to not be ill. I want them to not be depressed. I want them to not lose their jobs. I want them to not have to entertain the hijinks that ensue after a visit from a rapist. I want them to not have a 7th kid begin starving the other 6. I want them to have the basic, basic, basic bedrock respect that people don't just enter leave or occupy their bodies without their say so.

You had a daughter who you could care for and who didn't make you feel suicidal when you noticed she had her mother's eyes. Now everybody has to have a daughter, no matter their circumstances? Because you love your kid, and she was good for you, we all have to have kids, even if it kills us or puts us in poverty or destroys our dreams of what we could have achieved?

No thing ever is great every time for every person every hour of the day. No matter how wonderful carrot cake is, you don't want it when you're bleeding, or in a car crash, or sleeping or swimming. Every lovely thing is awful when it's forced on you unwanted during an inopportune time.

Try to generalize a little, people have their reasons, are you that important that you need to decide everyone's fate? Some random woman in Tennessee never asked you to weigh in on whether you think it's okay to order coke or Pepsi. Never asked you whether she should cut or grow her hair. But you're gonna decide whether she has children? No matter what she says or needs? Because it makes you uncomfortable??*

You know what would be more uncomfortable, would be to have no choice whether to accept bodily invasion, no matter what it did to you. Maybe spent .000003 seconds considering how terrifying that is, and not reaching to justify it, just to understand.

If you can insist that someone you never met is nonetheless ready to be a parent despite their desperate attempts to escape, you don't love women. You love incubation.

And no, it's no small thing to be pregnant, it's not a small 9 month concession, adoption isn't realistic for many many people, and it's not up to you.

The majority of women are supportive of reproductive rights because they know what it means. They're the ones on the ground. And here you are waffling about what they're allowed from the sidelines? It's not your call. Back off.

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