Agency, it’s some powerful shit.

Too late to be seen, but whatevs.

working out in full make-up and great hair!

uhmm, If someone’s making bad decisions, should they be having kids and be charged with raising them into balanced people?

I didn’t say it was fun. Physically, it was terribly unpleasant. But I shouldn’t have to justify my choice as a last resort. I’m sure that for many women, it absolutely is a last resort, and thank goodness that option is there, as harrowing as it may be.

Every woman I know who was pressured to have an abortion (whether she did or not) was pressured by someone who was “pro-life.” I wonder how common that is.

I am a man. This comment is 100% correct. If they made a fetus feed on my body I’d be like “LOL WUT NO”

I have to admit, me and my boyfriend did laugh in the pre-waiting room, answering the RIDICULOUS questions on the in-take form. Yes, I do always wear sunscreen and my seat belt...still unwittingly pregnant. Being in Georgia, we got a lot of side-eye.

IMO - The “abortion is the last/worst choice” argument needs to be stood down. It’s shopworn bullshit pushed on women to make them feel rotten about exercising their bodily autonomy.

Mine was playing “I Didn’t Know I was Pregnant” on the TV. It was...a poor choice on their part.

Nnnnnooooo, not for a great many of us. A great many women choose not to have children, or children at that time, and, when birth control fails, we abort. If anything, it is a decision of *second* resort, right after birth control that is effective. Having and raising a child is the last resort for us. I won’t speak…

Easiest, and maybe the best, decision I ever made.

My awesome Women Studies professor in college, when faced with the abortion question, just smiled at the token troll and said “If you want there to be fewer pregnancy terminations, then you should advocate for free childcare and work towards reducing the stigma on un-wed mothers.” mic drop. Love you, Prof. Roy!

This is such a great way to put it. I got pregnant with a guy during a one-night stand. I was 25, barely making ends meet, and facing the prospect of raising a baby in a one-bedroom apartment that I shared with my rambunctious pitbull. Not a great environment.

Heck, I think the idea of an artificial womb is wonderful. Synthetic uterine replicators so that no women who chooses to have a child need necessarily suffer the discomfort of pregnancy and birth. Helps make control over and agency within the reproductive process even more absolute.

OH YEAH - AND FUCKING STICK AROUND AND RAISE IT AND PAY FOR COLLEGE. Great, now I need high blood pressure meds.

It’s a decision of last resort - if we had the economic or emotional support (or maturity or desire) to have that child, most of us would. That’s why I for one, get SO PISSED OFF when MEN think they should have a hand in the decision or think we need extra time, counseling WHATEVER. It’s infantilizing and insulting to…

I seem to remember something about how, sometimes, women talking about regretting their abortion weren’t actually regretting their abortion, per say. Rather, they were regretting the larger situation that surrounded them: having to make that decision when they so desperately wanted children (just not yet), the…

“You know what, I really regret that abortion I had when I was a single, 23-year-old in the middle of my doctorate degree,” said no-one ever.

Same.