Well, I do not suffer from an existential crisis, and I also prefer my mother had a choice - you see I don't believe and I certainly know for a fact that when she was pregnant with me I was at varying stages up to the limit of legal abortion here in Australia a blastocyst, embryo, early fetus... I had no sentience and no way to feel pain until 26 weeks and more a which in most states and territories of Australia is past the legal abortion time :D
I was an biologically alive developing human, and like every one else I had no more right to use my mothers body for my survival than my twelve years younger brother did - just as neither of us can demand even a pint of her blood from her now, even if our lives depended on it.
I am proud and glad to be her CHOICE, I was not forced upon her, I was not an instrument to punish her for consensual ***** *** and for not using contraception (or having contraception/s fail and thankfully not non consensual **** or other abuse!), I was not forced enslavement for nine months that like every pregnancy, even healthy ones, will have life long effects (some debilitating) on her.
I was her freely given choice, and am especially grateful for that fact as it has cost her pain, suffering, mental illness and my brother her health - she now has type t...
Well, I do not suffer from an existential crisis, and I also prefer my mother had a choice - you see I don't believe and I certainly know for a fact that when she was pregnant with me I was at varying stages up to the limit of legal abortion here in Australia a blastocyst, embryo, early fetus... I had no sentience and no way to feel pain until 26 weeks and more a which in most states and territories of Australia is past the legal abortion time :D
I was an biologically alive developing human, and like every one else I had no more right to use my mothers body for my survival than my twelve years younger brother did - just as neither of us can demand even a pint of her blood from her now, even if our lives depended on it.
I am proud and glad to be her CHOICE, I was not forced upon her, I was not an instrument to punish her for consensual ***** *** and for not using contraception (or having contraception/s fail and thankfully not non consensual **** or other abuse!), I was not forced enslavement for nine months that like every pregnancy, even healthy ones, will have life long effects (some debilitating) on her.
I was her freely given choice, and am especially grateful for that fact as it has cost her pain, suffering, mental illness and my brother her health - she now has type two diabetes which started out as gestational diabetes.
Her hips and back are permanently changed, they will NEVER be back to normal. It will be life long. She has incontinence that yes exercise can help but will never truly cure or fix.
I consider my mother a human being, and her fundamental right is bodily autonomy.
Not a brood mare for breeding only.
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I am a ProChoice daughter and mother of a daughter and son for Choice.
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