fandomsandfeminism:

Me: One of our most fundamental rights is control over our own bodies. Our ability to consent, refuse consent, and revoke consent as to what happens to our bodies is paramount to our dignity as people; protection against violation, violence, and exploitation; and self-determination. Undercutting the respect for bodily autonomy can quickly give way to unethical and dangerous practices, and has led to some of the greatest medical and scientific abuses in human history. This is about more than just abortion. It’s about forced sterilization, it’s about organ donation, it’s about surrogacy rights, it’s about voluntary euthenics and DNR rights. It’s about medical consent during pregnancy and births, it’s about access to medical information to make informed choices about our own care. It’s about the ability to choose to stop medical care if we choose, to seek a second opinion. It’s about the ability to choose what happens to our bodies after we die, and the right to have that choice respected.  It is paramount to acknowledge that our bodies are ours, and our right to control them is irrevocable. It doesn’t go away when we get old, when we get sick, when we have sex, if we get pregnant. You may not personally like the implications this has for the abortion debate, but undermining the fundamental right to bodily autonomy has impacts far far greater than just abortion that should not be tampered with. 

Some jackass on this hellsite: Yeah but….you CHOSE to have sex, right? So checkmate.