Ode to Abortion

I've spent 31 years and four months in a body that is less than. Not greater than or equal to.

I live in a body that is so dangerous and powerful that it’s been subjected to abuse and control tactics.

I’m a woman. A whole woman. A complete woman.

A woman who chooses not to be a mother. A woman who lived through pregnancy scares in her teens and decided she’d keep the baby because she didn’t know another option was valid.

I live in fear every day that stupid fucks who hide behind religion will take away my fucking rights to be child free. I hear men call me a murderer, and boomer women tell me I’m a spoiled, selfish brat. 

I refuse to carry a pregnancy just because the thought of removing cells hurts your feelings. I refuse to be forced into parenthood.

I live in a body that should belong solely to me, but society doesn’t believe I deserve the same autonomy that men have.

I care about living, existing women with lives. We aren’t incubators. We aren’t hosts. We won’t go back to wire fucking hangers and back alleys. 

I will throw myself down my flight of stairs before I’m forced to subject my body to something I didn’t consent to. 

I won’t stop fucking for you.
I won’t stop fucking because you think I don’t understand that sex makes zygotes.

I refuse to bring someone unwanted into the world. I fucking refuse to bring someone into the world with a brain like mine. 

I won’t even go into why I don’t want to bring another human into the world in it’s current state. You figure that one out.

Abortion is healthcare.
Abortion is MY RIGHT.
Abortion is normal. It’s safe. It’s fucking necessary.

If you think any woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy that’s unwanted you are garbage. A rape victim, a woman carrying a fetus that will suffer and experience pain, a teen girl who had subpar, abstinence only sex-ed that didn’t teach her about birth control....ANY woman who isn’t willing or ready to be a mother.

Restricting abortion is sadistic control and the ultimate act of patriarchy and misogyny.

Let us fucking decide what happens to us.

You don’t own us.