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Being in control of one’s\u00a0own body might possibly be abortion activists’ most\u00a0frequently used argument for legalizing abortions. It’s as if women are just minding their own business, and at any time, the pregnancy fairy might attack, causing them to\u00a0‘need’ abortions. The way they present it, women are next to useless without the ability to kill a preborn child whenever they feel like it.<\/p>\n

Pro-abortion writer Caitlin Moran recently talked about how she gets “chills in her bones” remembering that women can’t have abortions in Ireland. Moran claims\u00a0that because abortion is illegal there,\u00a0Irish women don’t have control over their own bodies or futures<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always a shock to me,\u201d she tells Una Mullally on the latest episode of The Women\u2019s Podcast. \u201cMy family are from Ireland and I go over there a lot, and I always forget when I go over there. You\u2019re walking around and you suddenly remember this is a country where women do not have control of their bodies and their futures … I\u2019ll be walking down the street and suddenly remember this … it\u2019s a chill through your bones.\u201d<\/p>\n

… \u201cI was lucky, I was being picked up by my husband in our car and being driven back to our house around the corner and we\u2019d done this in our country without any problems at all. And this girl had to come all the way to another country on her own, I presume it was a secret, and when she came out of her procedure she just limped away slowly out of this clinic and stood at the bus stop in the pouring rain, clearly in a lot of pain, in order to start her journey back home again\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Abortion advocates use this claim to try to persuade people that, without abortion, women are practically helpless. There’s never any mention of how<\/em> women get pregnant; it’s as if pregnancy is another form of cancer to pro-abortion extremists\u00a0–\u00a0something that no one has any control over – and depriving women of abortion is like depriving cancer patients of chemo. They don’t mention what causes pregnancy for a very good reason: because doing so would create a pretty big hole in the “no control over our bodies” argument.<\/p>\n

Except in the very rare circumstance that a woman gets pregnant from being raped, women do<\/em> have control over their bodies. They have control over if and when they choose to have sex, which is what causes pregnancy. And because no birth control method is 100% reliable, it’s a risk that\u00a0women take every\u00a0time they have sex.<\/p>\n

While abortion advocates claim that consent to sex is not necessarily consent to pregnancy, this is a denial of exactly how our bodies are supposed to work<\/a>. It’s not punishment or patriarchy; it’s biology. So if a woman\u00a0is not ready to be a parent, there’s a way she\u00a0can take control of her\u00a0own body and avoid pregnancy:\u00a0don’t have sex.<\/p>\n

“But Cassy,” the pro-abortion extremists will cry, “people have a right to have sex whenever they choose to!” And that’s certainly true. But sex is not simple recreation – there are potential consequences. Pregnancy is one of them. Avoiding any possibility of pregnancy means that people will have to\u00a0avoid having sex, plain and simple. Yes, it may be difficult. Yes, it’s not as much fun. But the alternative, insinuated\u00a0by pro-abortion feminists, is that people are nothing more than slaves to their urges\u00a0–\u00a0no better than dogs in heat, unable to control\u00a0our own desires.\u00a0Are we simply animals, or are we human beings, capable of controlling ourselves?<\/p>\n

The argument could be made that the prevention of pregnancy\u00a0is what birth control is for, and this is true. However, once again, no birth control method is foolproof. Even sterilization has failure rates, small as they might be.<\/p>\n

Moran also peddles in one of the most insulting pro-abortion stereotypes out there: that having a baby destroys a woman’s future. Yet somehow, abortion supporters like Moran\u00a0also try\u00a0to claim that they empower women. How? By telling women that they’re too weak to handle any adversity, any unexpected event? A woman in college can still go to school while she’s pregnant. So can a working mother. There is no doubt that being a single mother is difficult, but the answer is not to\u00a0kill the child.<\/p>\n

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Abortion advocates\u00a0also ignore that while an abortion may seem to solve the immediate problem, abortion can cost women much more<\/a> than they planned. Women who have abortions are at higher risk for an array of physical complications, like multiple cancers and higher incidences of preterm birth in future pregnancies. That’s not including the mental health risks, which include higher incidences of drug and alcohol abuse, suicidal behavior, depression, and anxiety. So would it really be worth it in the long term?<\/p>\n

If feminists were actually interested in feminism, they would work to change the climate to be more supportive of women in crisis pregnancies. Instead, they attack organizations that do<\/em> work to help women facing unplanned pregnancies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s clear that pro-abortion\u00a0extremists aren’t interested in actually helping women or making their lives better. They’re interested in furthering abortion, while wrapping it up with\u00a0a fake bow of control and choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being in control of one’s\u00a0own body might possibly be abortion activists’ most\u00a0frequently used argument for legalizing abortions. It’s as if women are just minding their own business, and at any time, the pregnancy fairy might attack, causing them to\u00a0‘need’ abortions. 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