Anonymous: I see you still haven't answered my other ask. I am mentally ill and have a phobia of being pregnant. I would kill myself were I ever to become pregnant and could not get an abortion. Do you believe I should not have access to one?

not-your-incubator:

whosoevergirl-deactivated201608:

I believe it’s disgusting and frightening that we live in a world and in a society where motherhood is seen as a burden and an abomination. I believe it should be unthinkable for a person, even the mentally ill, to feel that life is no longer worth living because they don’t have the right to kill their own child. It’s not a mental illness thing. It’s a societal thing.

No, I don’t believe you should be allowed to hire an assassin to kill your unborn baby. I believe you should have easy access to good mental help and I believe it’s downright infuriating that we, humanity, as a whole, have decided that it’s easier to just kill the baby than it is to fight for the mother’s and consequently the baby’s health.

I believe it is abhorrent that our minds have been contorted so severely that we are willing to stick coat hangers into ourselves to kill our children, because we are told what a terror and a curse children are.

I believe that it is astoundingly ironic, the fact that we call the abortion movement “women’s rights,” considering its very foundation is the blatant lie that we are not strong enough to be mothers and also be successful/healthy, and that we must pick one.

Abortion is misogyny in its purest form and nobody can convince me otherwise. 

No, you should not be allowed to have an abortion because you are mentally ill. The thought of being pregnant should not be something the illness in you balks at, and a terrible injustice has been done to you if it does.

Unless you’re mentally ill I don’t believe you should voice your opinion on this topic. At all.

Now, as someone who’s mentally ill, let me explain to you something: pregnancy can be incredibly dangerous for us. And no, this isn’t a ‘society’ issue, this is a medical issue. A lot of medications can complicate pregnancies, causing both health problems to the pregnant person/fetus. Quite often you’d have to stop taking the medications entirely to carry on a healthy pregnancy. Unless you’re mentally ill you cannot even begin to fathom what damage that can do to them. That could cause them to relapse, which could escalate to an even more dangerous situation. When I was on my medication I was told, by a doctor, I absolutely could not be pregnant. Never. And again, I’ll stress that this wasn’t society telling me this, nor my beliefs, this was a medical professional telling me that yes, pregnancy would be a burden on me, a life threatening one. On top of my mental health, I have severe tokophobia, and to add the cherry on top, I’m asexual to begin with, so any chance of me being pregnant would be against my will. I dare you to tell me again that this is ‘misogyny’ and I  shouldn’t be allowed an abortion.

I find it highly laughable that you call yourself pro-life while in the same breath claiming that the mentally ill shouldn’t be allowed an abortion, even if it meant saving their life. 

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