theoppressedlittlefetus reblogged
"Since the fetus is a creature already alive and in the process of development, to kill it is to choose death over life. At what point should we allow this choice? For me the answer is – at no point, once life has begun. At no point, I repeat, either as life begins or as life ends, for we who are human beings cannot, for our own safety, be allowed to choose death…"
Pearl Buck, Nobel prize-winning author of The Good Earth, had a daughter who was severely mentally handicapped, yet indicated that she would not have aborted her child (via prowomanprolife)
So at what point are we allowed to revoke a person's rights to control what happens to their body? When they're pregnant? Menstruating? Ovulating? At what point do we tell a person their body no longer belongs to them and they can no longer make decisions for themselves? At what point do we tell them that a pregnancy is more important than their wants and well being?
