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“The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion”
(joycearthur.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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Were you born into a capitalist society? Did you have the opportunity to look around and see that there are haves and have nots? Did you ever read a book with the morals of the story being inequality? Have you ever heard of racism?
You dont get to be 8 years old in this world without taking a look around and realising everything is fucked. That should be all it takes. Holding those beliefs until you are an adult(which she presumably was) is disgusting. Being anti-abortion is means of control, there is no argument to the contrary. She never even attempted to justify her beliefs, she just wanted to hurt people until it was her being hurt.
|You dont get to be 8 years old in this world without taking a look around and realising everything is fucked. That should be all it takes.
I couldn't agree more, but that's not reality. A lot of people don't catch on that easily and are tied up in hateful social structures. In her story, she states that it was other people that empathized with her although she was so hateful and it forced her to change how she thought about that and other things in her life.
It's the same process you went through, just later, with different people, and a different perspective.
Yeah, she hurt people with her actions, and that does suck. But she grew from it. She doesn't need to justify past belief if she is correcting it. The very fact that it isn't justified is what led her to this decision.