a good meme - pro-choice

[keryx]

If you agree with this statement, post it in your journal/edit as needed:

I am pro choice and I would:
have an abortion
help a person receive an abortion, without judgement
learn how to provide or help women have access to abortions should it ever become illegal, no matter the legal repercussions
[further, because this ties quite nicely to another frustrating position re: abortion and reproductive freedom]
if I changed my mind about any of these things, still support real sex education, free healthcare, stopping gender-based violence, de-stigmatizing women's sexuality and instituting a universal living wage, thereby eliminating many of the situations that result in abortions.

From most everyone I know on LJ. To quote belladonnalin:This is the opposite of "I'm pro-choice, but I would ABSOLUTELY NEVER HAVE AN ABORTION, so now I will proceed to pretend to have a moral authority over those of you who exercise the exact right that I say you should have."

Comments

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think I get you, but I'm not sure that's a reason for silence. Would you help someone else get an abortion? It might be useful in some of this discussion to know there isn't a total division of pro-choice folk over this, that there are people who believe they wouldn't want an abortion right now who will still strongly defend others' willingness to do so without shaming them.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I should have said, btw, "not sure that necessitates silence", not what I actually said. Bah!