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I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I have done this. And I didn’t really mean to. It’s just that I don’t know how to talk about it anymore without promoting a harmful, unhelpful, and often dangerous pro-life rhetoric I was once part of. https://twitter.com/justinegiboney/status/1354794174588080128
I am pro-life and I want to reduce abortions as much as possible. Yet I see the ways in which we have politically tried to do that and often see a desire to make it illegal without actually reducing it, because I now realize these aren’t always the same thing.
I see a desire to save a baby at the expense of a mother, maybe a victim, even retraumatizing her. I see risks of mothers who miscarry accused of self-induced abortions (re: heartbeat bills) and lack of empathy for parents who have to make painful choices they don’t want to make.
I worked at a crisis pregnancy center for years and now I look back and understand the shady, deceitful, and unethical things that were sometimes done in the name of saving a baby. I don’t want to do it that way. I don’t think we have to do it that way.
I am pro-life. If I am quiet about this, it isn’t because I don’t care, it’s because I often do not know how to approach that topic in the political sphere anymore, as I once did. And I want to be more caring, kind, and empathetic about it than I was before.
Just wanted to share all this so you know where I stand, and in case anyone else is feeling similarly.
Want to add here that if you have a question for me, you can ask! I’d rather try to explain than you infer something I didn’t say from lack of understanding. So I’ll try to be an open book.
