Many, many people have been forced into nonconsensual abortion and sterilization. This is atrocious for all involved, and it is very important to stand against it. It also doesn’t make the right to choose abortion or sterilization any less important and necessary. The fact that some people are forced to abort does not mean other people should be forced not to abort.
I don’t see suicide any differently. The fact that some people have been murdered by ableist institutions does not excuse keeping other people alive against their will. Denying a person’s agency is denying a person’s agency.
Telling a story about a person who chooses abortion is not inherently disrespectful to or dismissive of people who have undergone abortions against their will. It’s merely exploring a different side of what I want more activists to recognize as the same coin. I’d like to see alliance among all people who believe in bodily autonomy, regardless of what that autonomy would look like to them personally.
Those of us who fight for the right to choose abortion are not the enemy of those who fight involuntary sterilization. Those of us who believe in the right to die are not the enemy of those who want to live. At the end of the day, we’re all angling for the same agency. Please, let’s not fight one another. Let’s fight the common enemies that keep us all from self-determination.
pro-choice, goddammit.
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