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Why
I made this Pro Choice t-shirt
...because
women's rights are patriotic!!!
...because
women's rights are under attack in the USA.
...because
the decision of whether or not to have an abortion should
be made by the individual who is most impacted by that decision...
the pregnant woman herself, not the government.
...because
every pregnancy has different circumstances, and laws limiting
what a pregnant woman can do with her own body are repressive.
...because
the right to an abortion is a human right.
Granted
I'm a man and therefore I can't get pregnant. So I don't claim
to be an oracle on the subjects of pregnancy or abortion,
but I believe that the decision to carry a fetus for 9 months
or not should be the pregnant woman's decision alone since
it is her body. Any sort of interference or coersion is repressive.
You
can't break into some one else's house and take their things
because it is their property. What is property in comparison
to one's body? If a society of property and material is to
be a free society, fundamentally it must be made clear that
people own their own bodies. Their boss doesn't own their
body, nor does the government. A man doesn't own his wife's
body. What is this freedom we hear so much about if a women
doesn't own and control her own body?
So,
I made a shirt about abortion because I want to side step
the tedious arguments about when an embryo becomes this or
that. Let us not forget that men have in the past gotten women
pregnant on purpose in order to domesticate them, and this
still happens today. When a woman is pregnant she is literally
weighted down with extra burden, and if she gives birth and
keeps the child then her life will change. Should a woman
not have the ability to self determination? Should a woman
not have the right to decide for herself when and if she wants
to make that sacrifice that child bearing and rearing is?
Without the right to have an abortion and access to abortion
women are not truly free.
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