im disgusted by the notion that a born life and an unborn life are equal. that a woman who has hopes and dreams and emotions and motivations, who has to endure pregnancy and labor and provide for her child is equivalent to her fetus.

knowing that most of the people who oppose abortion are those who arent in a position to ever have to make that choice (men, menopausal woman, married women), i'm offended at making a moral comparison btwn the legalization of something that serves as a viable option for many poor, single women (abortion) vs. the legalization of something that enables rich white men to get richer, deprives black people of their humanity and establishes hate and oppression as the law (slavery).

it's also just stupid mathematically to compare dead slaves to dead fetuses. the horror of slavery wasn't that people died during it. the horror was in the lives they lived, not that they died like everyone else.

now if you want to compare 60 million black people who never had to be slaves to 60 million fetuses who were never born, that would make more sense. but that leads us to acknowledge that black people would have been better off without slavery, however we can't say that fetuses are better off being born when they don't have the consciousness to know they are born or not. we can even take it a step further and acknowledge that the world is a better place when people who are ready and desiring to be parents make up a higher percentage of parents vs those that would rather not have them for whatever reason.

saying that abortion is a result of irresponsible behavior is beside the point. people have sex. we're supposed to. biology dont give a fuck about your personal circumstances.

unless you abstained from sex before marriage, got married, then had children, and stayed with your spouse forever, you have no room to talk, because anything less than that is irresponsible. only those who have brought children into the world under ideal circumstances can say they are responsible.