Culture Crusaders, My body is not your battlefield.

[CrispyQ]

6. Excellent commentary!

I'm glad I've not given up on this forum.

My uterus is mine. It is located in my body. Mine. You might already acknowledge that government has no place telling me what to feed my body with, what I should drink, and if your mind is broad enough, you may have no opinion about who I make love with using this one body I have, in the lifespan I'll enjoy. So I want you to understand, that if my uterus experiences a pregnancy--that pregnancy is mine. My pregnant uterus effecting my life. Not your life, or your uterus, or your pregnancy. It is mine.

That's my missed period. That is my financial situation. That's my age. That is my relationship with the donor of the sperm that joined with the egg my body produced. It will be my physical changes, that effect the one body I have. My addictions, my mental health, my physical health, my mobility, my ability to consider myself separately from the individual who impregnated me, the pregnancy within me, and the world I need to negotiate to keep food in my stomach and a roof over my head. You can't know all of these things. These things are mine. Not yours. That is why I should chose--not you, whether I can seek the best possible care for my body. I seek it out. I chose to. Because I want what is best for me. And you don't know me.

Absolutely outstanding!!

The sin in judging others is that you cannot judge others outside the context of your own life. You have no idea what their situation is, what experiences they have had. No. Fucking. Clue.