Like every other young adult, I start my morning by scrolling on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. At 9:30 in the morning, I’m not looking forward to heartbreaking news, so when I saw that Texas was trying to pass a bill that would allow the death penalty for patients who get abortions, I was absolutely appalled. The bill does not exclude incest or rape; they would still charge the woman for homicide for having the abortion. Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican State Legislator who introduced this bill says it will make people consider the repercussions of having sex.
I truly do not understand why a man would think he knows what women should do with their body. Tinderholt’s idea that people need to consider the repercussions of having sex is complete bullshit. Do people honestly believe most men think about the repercussions of having sex? If a woman is forced to keep a baby or keeps it because she wants it and the man doesn’t want to be involved, he doesn’t have to. At the most all he needs to do is pay child support. Women feel obligated to stay with their child because it grew inside of them, it’s a connection most women can’t take themselves away from. So really what Tinderholt actually meant was, women need to consider the repercussions of having sex.
I don’t know what someone has to go through in life to make them think they are superior enough to tell someone they have to keep something they do not want. No one will ever be superior enough to tell a woman what she should do with her body. Some women conceive through rape or incest and they don’t want a reminder for the rest of their life. Some women are not financially stable at all. Some women just don’t want kids. That’s really all the reasoning they need to give, if they should even have to give a reason at all.
I don’t know if people who are against abortions think that if they shut down all clinics or areas that give safe, professional abortions, it will stop women from getting abortions in general, but that is not the case. All they’re doing is making it much more dangerous for women who are desperate for an abortion. Children are hard work that need constant attention, all their needs met, love, etc. Not everybody can do that, so if a woman is conscientious enough to realize that they can’t provide that for a child, they’re probably doing the kid a favor. Some may talk about giving the baby up for adoption, but foster homes aren’t great places. Kids get abused sexually, physically and emotionally. They’re not always adopted into a good home when they’re a baby, sometimes they can bounce from foster home to foster home all of their life.
So the next time the topic of abortion comes up, before you talk, ask yourself if you even have a place to talk about what that person should and should not do for themselves.