Pro-Choice Writers

I love you.

Good idea. :-)

Yay, this is awesome. :)

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Nice.

Also, I see you're a fan of James Joyce. A rare breed, indeed. I'm fairly certain I'm the only of my friends who ever finished any of the man's books, let alone liked them.

Yeah, this year is my seventh NaNo, and in all my time spent on here since 2005 this is the very first time I've ever even had the urge to report someone, much less felt the responsibility to follow through. Which I did, and thus the report pile on that post grows ever higher...

Regardless, I do find it fairly simple to avoid clicking on the threads that I know are just going to end up irking me (pro-lifers, etc.) as well as the ones that aren't relevant to my interests or life (Disney, left-handedness, etc.) and stick to the 'good' stuff.

Also bodily autonomy for people with uteri who don't identify as women.

This comment = win.

I think this was actually one of the biggest reasons for abortion being legalised in the first place, in many places. It was happening anyway, so it made more sense for it to be legal, and therefore subject to health and safety laws, than to have it remain illegal. In the end, banning abortion would have little to no effect on the abortion rates, but would increase the number of deaths due to unsafe abortion.

Anyway, yeah, I'm pro-choice (you'd probably guessed, but I'm putting it here anyway). Hi.

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I'm pro-choice/anti-abortion. :D I'm odd.

Essentially: politically, I'm pro-choice. Scientifically, fetus=/= baby, and there's a seperation between state and church. It's not even a question, it's logic. But I'd, personally, never abort a kid, but I won't look badly on someone else if they do. It's way more complicated then, "I hate kids, kill them ALL!!!!" O.o

Logistically speaking, giving "personhood" to fetii (?) creates a whole set of legal headaches. Two people cannot have a right to the same body. Would pregnant women be legally required to abstain from alcohol and tobacco, to exercise, to eat right, to take vitamins? Would EVERY woman in her childbearing years be required to do those things, a la The Handmaid's Tale? Would all miscarriages be investigated the way any death of unknown origin is investigated? Would doctors be required to save both the fetus and the mother? What if only one could be saved?

I am pro-choice/pro-life. Just as not all pro-choicers are pro-abortion in the way you stated ("yay, lets kill babies), it doesn't mean all pro-lifers are anti-choice!

I actually don't like the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" as they aren't actually opposites, so if anything I prefer to say I am pro-choice but anti-abortion.

Pro-choice because it should be the pregnant woman's decision (anti-choice is where the choice is taken away from the woman, this would bean the chooser (ie government) could force a woman to undergo an abortion or take extreme measures to ensure she doesn't have one. )
Anti-abortion because I don't think abortion is always a good thing and should only be considered in certin circumstances. Pro abortion for me is where abortion is a fine thing, not in a "yay! kill the babies!" way but considered like the oral contraceptive, any woman should have the right to have access to it at any time.

I have nothing against people who are pro-abortion, being pro-choice it means I think they have the right to choose their opinion on any matter, including abortion!

Can we edit posts yet? It might be nice if we can to edit the forst post and state if only pro-choice/pro-abortionists are allowed or pro-choice/anti-abortionists are too because to be honest I find the term "pro-choice" confusing as somtimes it doesn't include all pro-choicers.

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It's not something I foresee coming up in the genres I tend to write, but of course pro-choice is my default treatment of the matter because it's the only one that actually makes sense if you are a decent human being.

It doesn't tend to come up in my stories - I write high fantasy - but the one time pregnancy was an issue worth discussing in a story, the idea of having an abortion was taken rather well. The girl in question was 14, the sister of the king, and not committed to either of the men who could have made her pregnant, and both her, her brother, and the two potential fathers agreed that it was probably the best option. The whole exchange is maybe three lines long, and isn't really brought up again, but if you have a bit of background in what the medievals thought X herb and Y did and you pay attention to the filler sentences, it's definitely implied that she isn't pregnant by the end of the story.

I don't think I've ever written about the subject. If I do, I'm confident enough that my opinions will show one way or the other. Isn't it what being an author is about?

I've written a few abortions in a historically-based setting before. (Keep in mind, no modern politics, no modern medicine.) One of these was accidentally fatal to the mother, and the other wasn't. I've also mentioned at least one more that I remember off the top of my head in backstory that happened five or so years before the story began. It's implied that it's common in the setting, but with a mostly male cast and a lack of modern politics, it's mostly just treated as "women's matters," and there are no debates either way. It just happens and life goes on.

I'm writing historical fiction, and this thread has created a plot bunny for me...