Safe legal choice to have an abortion

Hope she comes back

OMG so sorry for forfeiting that last round!

Here are the main things:

-Bodily autonomy is the most important argument because it’s bulletproof, really. Bodily autonomy is an unwritten law that says no one can use your body without your consent, which is why (most) humans automatically understand why rape is wrong and why you have to be an organ donor in life for your organs to be taken after your death. Fetuses do not have bodily autonomy because they are not autonomous. You may try to derail at this point and accuse me of ableism, because many disabled people are dependent on others. However, disabled people are still autonomous, because they don’t live inside the body of another person and suck up their nutrients, and unlike fetuses, they are sentient. If abortion is illegal, dead people will officially have more rights than pregnant people (because a dead person’s organs can’t be used if they aren’t a consenting organ donor).

-Outlawing abortion will not stop abortion, but make it less safe. As high as 1.2 million people died attempting unsafe and illegal abortions between 1880 and 1973, and thousands more were injured[x]. Abortions are going to happen no matter what, so if you really care about pregnant people, you had better simmer down and let abortion be.

-Right to life does not trump everything else. If you claim it does, why haven’t you been forced to donate one of your kidneys, a few lung lobes, bone marrow, blood, liver pieces, etc., to save lives because everyone deserves to live more than each person deserves rights over their own body, right? You may support "equality" for unborn children, but the truth is they're already equal--no born person has the right to infringe on someone else's bodily autonomy.

- Fetuses cannot feel and do not have a sense of mortal danger. There are no detectable brain waves that would translate to pain or fear until 28 weeks. An abortion after 28 weeks only happens under special circumstances, and the fetus is euthanized before a 3rd-trimester abortion, meaning it feels none of the abortion. [Source: http://discovermagazine.com...;] That means that more suffering is involved in a straining forced nine-month pregnancy, painful birth, and growing up unwanted than the suffering involved in an abortion

- Abortion occurs in nature. When a nonhuman animal is pregnant at a bad time, they will electively abort. Some animals eat poisonous plants, and some even walk through spaces too small for them to crush the fetus. All so they won’t give birth to a baby they can’t feed. Elective abortion is a maternal instinct. Some anti-choicers vocally wonder why people can have abortions, saying it conflicts with maternal instincts, but, if you look at nonhuman animals and why they abort, you see that abortion is maternal instinct, to save a child from being born unwanted/very sick.


- Even if you will not let the idea go that abortion is murder, it’s justifiable homicide, self-defense. Having something inside of you that you don’t want in there is a medical urgency.When that thing is violating your bodily autonomy, it is self-defense to kill it.