@CharJTF Oh, I’m sorry—but I’m so glad you were able to access the care you needed. Some ppl do pregnancy rly well. Some ppl don’t. & like you, some do pregnancy rly well—until that minute they don’t. Which means each of us must be free to choose whether or not we wish to risk our health, our careers, our education, our financial security, our relationships, our bodies, our futures, our lives. 😔 #AbortionIsEssential

I couldn’t afford a pregnancy (much less another child), nor was there any way I could physically handle pregnancy or childbirth.

But most importantly, I didn’t WANT to.

& no one—including me, including you—should be forced to grow & bear unwanted babies.
No one.
NO ONE.
EVER.
Bodily autonomy is a fundamental human right. Period, end of conversation. /end #OurAbortionStories #WeTestify #AbortionIsAHumanRight #abortionisessential

I think about this truth every day of my life. Every single day. #ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionIsEssential

This is not a child. About a quarter of Americans will insist to you that it is, because they think that’s an effective strategy for stripping human rights from more than half our population, but underneath their lies, they know. We all know. This. Is. Not. A. Child. #ProChoiceIsProLife #AbortionIsAHumanRight #AbortionIsEssential

But the following poem--written by a fellow adoptee--sums up my feelings on the subject beautifully.
"If she had aborted me, her life would have been free
of the hard pit inside her
the secret of me.
And I would have been free to become a flower, a lizard, a redwood tree."

Not every egg must become an embryo. & not every embryo must become a person. That's reality. That's life. & that's OK. #AbortionIsEssential #ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights /end
https://nurtureliterary.com/post/691359549388668929/would-you-rather

I’ve always wondered how much you have to hate children to wish them born to ppl who don’t love or want them. #ProChoiceIsProLife #AbortionIsEssential #AdopteeVoices

It’s not a decision to judge OR to attempt to control. Whether a pregnancy is a risk to life/health or not. Some ppl get pregnant accidentally—& SIMPLY DON’T WANT TO GROW & BEAR A CHILD. That’s a valid a reason for #abortion. Pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood—they’re all HUGE. Only the pregnant person knows whether they’re up to them or not. It’s their decision. Mind your own damn business. Period. #AbortionIsEssential

From: @velshi
https://mastodon.world/@velshi@mastodon.world@mastodon.world/113217288538672336

“Laws will never stop abortion. Because we won’t let them.”

Damn straight. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 #AbortionIsEssential #ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights

From: @murilove
https://sunbeam.city/@murilove/112677482826950273

Yes. They will. #AbortionIsEssential #ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights https://msmagazine.com/2024/06/24/emtala-supreme-court-women-die-abortion-bans-pregnant/

Yes, I will. #RoeTheVote #AbortionIsEssential

Good. Lock ‘em all up. #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionIsEssential

From: @w7voa
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112537735940268202

& feel free to steal the chart I posted, bc clearly, anti-choice lunatics don't have 1 tiny clue about fetal development.

That, or they're just massive liars. /end

#ProChoiceIsProLife #AbortionIsEssential #ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights

Period.

#ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionIsEssential #ProChoiceIsProLife

Just a reminder that human tissue & human being are two different things, & the latter should ALWAYS prevail. ALWAYS.

Also, as a side note, this doesn’t care whether it grows into a person or not. If it’s aborted, it’ll never know the difference, as it’s the size of a blueberry & doesn’t yet have a brain.

#EmbryosAreNotPeople #AbortionIsEssential #ProChoiceIsProLife

‘Fleeing under the cover of darkness’: How Idaho’s abortion ban is changing pregnancy in the state
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/health/idaho-abortion-laws/index.html #abortion #reproductivecare #miscarriage #fetalabnormality #prochoice #prolife #ProLifeMyAss #womensrights #abortionishealthcare #abortionisessential

This makes me literally sick to my stomach. They’ve somehow managed to survive the violence of rape only to have their governments violate them a 2nd time. When I tell you I would drive off a bridge before I brought my rapist’s baby into the world, I’m not being hyperbolic. #ForcedBirthIsViolence #AbortionIsEssential #ProChoiceIsProLife https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/texas-sees-estimated-26k-pregnancies-rape-18625692.php

"During Satton’s pregnancy, she said doctors at OU Health agreed she would need an abortion & should receive care since her health was at risk.

That’s when her family was told something they didn’t want to hear.

'They told him they couldn’t touch me until I was crashing & that we should wait in the parking lot until I was about to die,' said Statton." https://kfor.com/news/federal-complaint-denied-after-oklahoma-woman-denied-emergency-abortion/ #misogyny #patriarchy #AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionIsEssential

Just a quick follow-up to yesterday's thread ... #ProChoiceIsProLife #AbortionIsEssential

@BootsChantilly

Thank you for sharing! As an adoptee who is also pro-choice, I identify with this. While I have never had an abortion, I have taken the morning after pill twice. I have gone with friends to support them to get an abortion.

🌟💟🌟

#MyBodyMyChoice #AbortionIsEssential #AbortionIsHealthcare #AdopteeVoices

6/6 another person’s LITERAL labor.

I'm a pro-choice adoptee. I'm pro-choice, pro-health, pro-sex, pro-family & pro-life. I am NOT a tool for anti-choicers & their twisted agenda. /end

#ProChoiceIsProLife #AbortionIsEssential #AbortionIsHealthCare #AdopteeVoices