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It is cruel to force birth

Image by THIS IS ZUN, Pexels. [Image description: A first-person view of a pale arm outstretched, dangling a small common lizard by it's extremely long tail.]

@torch_of_justice on youtube:

Re: mold; Why do you think some life is worth protecting and other life not? What do you believe the point is of any life that is not sentient?

Re: scientific start of a pregnancy being at the end of the mother's last period; look it up for yourself if you don't believe me, I am neither lying or mistaken.

Re: why would I intervene in the life of a lizard but not someone else's body? Because that body is not mine, nor am I called to be the caretaker of my fellow humans. I have far more to do arguing for the protection and feeding of the 60,000 children who age out of the foster care system every year, many of which are also the young women trying to get abortions because they were raped in their group homes. Children who were abandoned (not only by their families but also by the government) account for a net yearly increase of 20,000 young adults to the homeless population. These are related issues. Until we deal with the surplus of unwanted children that already exist, there is no ethical room to demand that more are created.

Does the protection of "life" end at birth? In all states that have banned abortion, it does. Did you know that the number one cause of abortion is lack of money to care for a child? If you truly wish to decrease or eliminate abortion, you have to eliminate the cause of it - lack of money, lack of education (especially sex ed), rapists, etc. Interestingly enough, this will also decrease the number of foster kids who age out of the system and remain homeless.

I will say this again, because it's important: it is cruel to force someone to be born and then not care for them.

My father was a reproductive abuser. He coerced my cognitively disabled mother to give birth to me and abandoned her in the hospital. My life has been one trauma after another thanks to that decision; from the time I was taken away from her, including the time my adoptive parents told me to go live in a homeless shelter because my own undiagnosed cognitive disability prevented me from being the child they wanted me to be, and on and on... I really think that if I had not been born, everyone around me would have been happier. Do you understand what that feels like?

And that is the better option, I was adopted!

It is cruel to force someone to be born and then not provide care for them.

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