06/24/2024
On the 2 year anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, I just want to remind everyone that I am passionately, furiously, fervently pro-choice.
I’m pro-choice because as a healthcare provider it is NEVER my right to make a choice for my patients. Someone declining my recommendation to receive a vaccine? Their choice. Someone asking for more ultrasounds that I recommend? Their choice. Someone planning to carry a pregnancy to term even if, were I living their life, I would terminate the pregnancy? THEIR CHOICE. Someone planning to terminate for a reason I myself would not???? THEIR CHOICE!
I believe life begins with intention. Nitpicking things like when life begins, what instances can grant you an abortion (like r**e or in**st), or what type of procedure is completed is about nothing other than controlling the people attempting to have abortions. In the end, I simply don’t care. If it is your choice about your body, I will support it.
When I had an abortion no one second guessed me, no one made me explain myself. And when I chose to have a homebirth no one that I was working with made me explain why I would choose that or recite the research on homebirth safety. If I were to choose not to donate a kidney to a cousin who needed one to survive, NO ONE CAN LEGALLY FORCE ME. That is a fact! US law does not allow one person’s body to be forced into a medical procedure to save another person (McFall v. Shimp).
None of what I’m saying is new or original or a surprise, but here I have to say it again. Abortion is only up to the person who will experience it in their body. That’s it.
