This Too Shall Pass

I used to be a pro-life Republican

stfuantichoicers:

“I was a girl growing up in Texas who was failed by abstinence-only education and soured by extreme religious dogma. I don’t want other girls to go through that, too.”

“What saddens me more than anything else are women who want to make abortion either so inaccessible as to render it impracticable, or who want to outlaw it altogether. Because I truly believe that most women, anti-choice or otherwise, who’ve experienced even a flicker of uncertainty about a pregnancy in this country since 1973 have been glad, in their hearts, to have a choice. I believe wanting to take that choice away from others is deeply about shame and punishment and judgment, and not about righteousness and love. I believe that because I rarely see those who want to outlaw abortion doing anything to combat its cause: unintended pregnancy, and I see them doing a lot to punish and shame women.”

This is a great article. Take a few minutes to give it a read.

Believe it or not, I used to be a pro-life Republican too. I’m proud of coming about my current views entirely on my own.

(Source: brookestuh, via selfefficacy)

Posted 1 year ago — 462 notes