I can’t speak from a Muslim perspective, but I can speak from an ex-christian fundamentalist perspective and I think that sometimes, even when we’ve made progress it can be hard to let go of some of the beliefs that direct affect you.
I stopped being a Christian when I became an adult but when I got pregnant I still held tightly to the belief that abortion was murder. I felt it was fine for others to go and do because we all have the right to choose what we do with our bodies, I knew women who’d had abortions, and I never once thought I would go to hell for it, but after a lifetime of conditioning it just felt wrong for me to do. Now I wouldn’t hesitate to get an abortion if I needed one.
Even when one has unpacked the luggage, it can take some time to reorganize it all and discard what you don’t need.
This is what bugs me. A lot of feminists are “it’s the woman’s choice what to do with her body” … and then hypocritically condemn women who choose “wrong”.
So much of the (usually American, sadly) Left is about attacking other leftists for not being pure enough while the right walks in lockstep.
I can’t speak from a Muslim perspective, but I can speak from an ex-christian fundamentalist perspective and I think that sometimes, even when we’ve made progress it can be hard to let go of some of the beliefs that direct affect you.
I stopped being a Christian when I became an adult but when I got pregnant I still held tightly to the belief that abortion was murder. I felt it was fine for others to go and do because we all have the right to choose what we do with our bodies, I knew women who’d had abortions, and I never once thought I would go to hell for it, but after a lifetime of conditioning it just felt wrong for me to do. Now I wouldn’t hesitate to get an abortion if I needed one.
Even when one has unpacked the luggage, it can take some time to reorganize it all and discard what you don’t need.
This is what bugs me. A lot of feminists are “it’s the woman’s choice what to do with her body” … and then hypocritically condemn women who choose “wrong”.
So much of the (usually American, sadly) Left is about attacking other leftists for not being pure enough while the right walks in lockstep.
Don’t feel bad about it. We accept killing people in lots of circumstances like self defense and war for example. That doesn’t make it good either.
Legal abortion is about saving the lives of women.
Abortions are neither fun, nor desirable, but a last resort in very difficult situations.
They are also about not forcing unwanted pregnancies on women.