Jeff, I want to respond to what you said to Sara. She seemed really upset (understandably) so I might try to field this in a calmer manner.
You seem to be in the mindset of what you would ideally want the world to be like and not what it actually IS like. You say that you understand that sometimes women are raped and you want women to take responsibility for themselves and hold the men accountable for their actions. This sounds good in theory, but can I tell you something? If someone raped me tomorrow I would be in an abortion clinic SO FAST that nobody would even able to tell me “no.” And if someone dared tell me that the responsible thing to do would be go through with the pregnancy after somebody had just violated me in such an unspeakably awful way I would probably punch them in the face. I do agree with Sara that men simply cannot understand this on the same level. It’s fine if you have your opinion but the holocaust comparison was out of line. I mean, look at all the comments on this article. Almost all of them mention how offensive and hurtful that was to them. Does that not mean anything? Maybe so many people are telling you it’s offensive because it’s actually effin’ offensive!
Abortion is a tough topic and many people don’t agree with it but it’s the reality of the world. And I’d much rather live in a world where women were able to have safe, legal abortions if they feel like that’s the best option for them. It’s better than the alternative. Women do horrible things to themselves if it’s not legally available to them. Not every woman on earth wants to have a child and not every woman should have to have one. Ideally, everyone who wished to remain without children wouldn’t get pregnant, but again, that’s not the reality of the world because of rape and because of people being uneducated about sex and contraceptives. And really, the religious right who are against abortion are also against sex education in many instances. So there’s the real issue.
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Jeff, I want to respond to what you said to Sara. She seemed really upset (understandably) so I might try to field this in a calmer manner.
You seem to be in the mindset of what you would ideally want the world to be like and not what it actually IS like. You say that you understand that sometimes women are raped and you want women to take responsibility for themselves and hold the men accountable for their actions. This sounds good in theory, but can I tell you something? If someone raped me tomorrow I would be in an abortion clinic SO FAST that nobody would even able to tell me “no.” And if someone dared tell me that the responsible thing to do would be go through with the pregnancy after somebody had just violated me in such an unspeakably awful way I would probably punch them in the face. I do agree with Sara that men simply cannot understand this on the same level. It’s fine if you have your opinion but the holocaust comparison was out of line. I mean, look at all the comments on this article. Almost all of them mention how offensive and hurtful that was to them. Does that not mean anything? Maybe so many people are telling you it’s offensive because it’s actually effin’ offensive!
Abortion is a tough topic and many people don’t agree with it but it’s the reality of the world. And I’d much rather live in a world where women were able to have safe, legal abortions if they feel like that’s the best option for them. It’s better than the alternative. Women do horrible things to themselves if it’s not legally available to them. Not every woman on earth wants to have a child and not every woman should have to have one. Ideally, everyone who wished to remain without children wouldn’t get pregnant, but again, that’s not the reality of the world because of rape and because of people being uneducated about sex and contraceptives. And really, the religious right who are against abortion are also against sex education in many instances. So there’s the real issue.
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