If I literally thought abortion = killing a baby, I’d be pretty dead set against it, too!

Pretty much. If you want your religious beliefs to dictate medical laws instead of science, then you want a theocracy. If you want to live in a theocracy, at least be honest about that to yourself and to others. It’s all optics. Much like why Republicans call it “obamacare” and not the ACA, if you can only get people…

Yeah, pretty much. Pro-lifers are always horrified that us pro-choicers support babies being murdered.

Um, no. Murdering babies is very illegal and literally nobody is fighting for the right to do that.

Morons.

A year ago I would have just gone with Pants-On-Head stupid, but I’m coming around to the idea that some people are just disingenuous shitheads who have learned there’s a lot of money to be made in putting a “fun, millennial, feminist twist!” on tired conservative policies (I know, I’m naive). There’s nothing wealthy…

The explanation that cleared it up for me is this: The government cannot coerce you into saving someone else’s life by forcing you to donate an organ (kidney, liver, even blood which is super low risk). This is generally seen as a basic human right, not just a good principle to live and govern by. The government…

If you’re anti-abortion but respect that it’s your personal decision and are cool with letting others do whatever they want because they ALSO get to make that personal decision, then you’re pro-choice.

“If I literally thought abortion = killing a baby, I’d be pretty dead set against it, too!”

She pisses and moans that she’s somehow made to feel lesser than her pro-choice counterparts, but then she turns around and categorically dismisses all of us as being some kind of mindless stooges for a “pro-abortion movement.”

This. If you don’t want women to have abortions, there is feminist work you can do. You can advocate for free or very low cost birth control given out to both women and men. You can advocate for bumping up money to programs that support single mothers. You can advocate for practical sex education starting at an…

CNN had a similar opinion piece yesterday from a woman complaining that being pro-choice was inherently anti-feminist because it commodifies sex and reduces the burden of pregnancy on men.

Thank you for making this distinction. It’s so frustrating when pro-choice is assumed to mean pro-abortion.

“This is what we conservative women live with all the time, this idea that we somehow aren’t really women and we just reflect internalized misogyny [...] I don’t think they represent women. I think they are a wholly owned subsidiary of the abortion movement.”

Exactly. When your beliefs harm other women, you aren’t a feminist. You’re a bigot.

I think it counts. That’s the where the choice in being pro-choice comes in. As in, it wouldn’t be my personal choice, but each individual has the right to make a different choice. I think the anti-choice crowd has been really, really successful in driving this narrative that equates pro-choice as strictly…

Feminism is about giving women the power and opportunity to make their own choices, even if you disagree with said choice.

“a Catholic law student and self-described feminist”

If you’re anti-abortion but respect that it’s your personal decision and are cool with letting others do whatever they want because they ALSO get to make that personal decision, by all means join us.

If you don’t believe in bodily autonomy, you’re not a feminist.

I think you can be a feminist and anti-abortion, but you can’t be a feminist and be anti-choice. Feminism isn’t about the right to “live out our womenhood.” It’s about working to liberate women from the oppression of the kyriarchy. Feminists don’t have to see abortion as an option for themselves, but attempting to…

Nope, sorry. If you have so little respect for woman you think they shouldn’t be able to make decisions about their own bodies, you aren’t a feminist.