Anti-Choice Stereotypes

Amanda Marcotte of RH Reality Check dispels the myths and stereotypes the anti-choice community spreads about women and choice.

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[bluestars982]

Marcotte is a sexist anti-male pig.

[dfbhcf]

What an ignorant hypocrite that woman is.

[ryddelwearsahat]

I have been accused of so many things b/c I'm pro-choice, and even MORE things b/c I had an abortion and DON'T regret it. Seriously, the accusations and implications of why i 'really' had an abortion, or how i 'really' feel about it.. ranges anywhere from I did it for satan, I'm a pedophile, I'm racist, I was lazy, I wanted to have sex, I was mad at the 'baby'.. it is rediculous. Supposedly I'm all those things, hate babies, am depressed about aborting.. these people don't know me or ANYONE.

[braintree2]

@hannibaled You have not really addressed my point. Conservatives do not constitute a majority (according to a Gallup poll it's about 40%). But a landslide-scale majority of 60% considers abortion to be inherently immoral. Until feminists can find some way to address that support for abortion rights will always be weak.

[hannibaled]

Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. It's about supporting each individual and family unit in their choosing to be pregnant, to get pregnant. It's about acknowledging that those with female sex organs are not breeding cattle.

The belief that parenthood is awesome disgusts me. Saying that someone who is not ready to be a parent will change their mind once an irreversible change has occurred to their body is like saying "sorry you're mentally ill; just be normal and you'll feel better."

[hannibaled]

@braintree2 Not all Conservatives are against safe, legal access to abortion.  A political label that covers both social and fiscal views (but not necessarily both in the same body) had nothing to do with anti-choice or pro-choice.

As a Conservative, I still feel that every person should make the choice for his/herself. Honestly? A fetus has no rights. One doesn't even have enough functioning systems to live outside my body until around 22 weeks. Even then, it has a low chance of survival.

[braintree2]

Most of the arguments here are actually not that bad. However, 60% of Americans regard abortion as inherently immoral. Feminists want to make a women's right to control her body the only issue but how on earth is that ever going to politically fly?

Abortion rights will always be tenuous until feminists can find a way to address pubic concern about the rights of the fetus. Until then, conservatives are going to get away with weakening abortion rights because pubic support wil be way too weak.

[Orjahlian]

@Karenjadegirl

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[Karenjadegirl]

@Orjahlian Anyway, I alread said I was through discussing and debating this. You aren't changing my mind or my opinion, so you may as well stop replying.

[Karenjadegirl]

@Orjahlian Women can prevent abortions by not having one if she *wants* the pregnancy, birth and motherhood. If she doesn't, then you can't force it on her aginst her will. There are plenty of women who don't believe in abortion either, so they don't have to get one if they don't want one. It's also a true fact that the majority of anti-choicers are *men* and that none of them will ever be pregnant.