I will write about abortion until all people stop cringing at the word. #teamgia

Once upon a time there was a girl who had sex when she was just a child. It ended in pregnancy and she felt obligated to share her decision to terminate the pregnancy with the boy who impregnated her. When this bastard decided to run an online smear campaign bringing this brave lil' lady's character into question her life turned upside down. No longer was she Gia the track star who wore fishtail braids before they were a thing and was the only eighth grade girl in advanced physics. Gia's talents, alternative hairstyles, and fiery personality no longer meant a thing. She was reduced down to the "whore" who got an abortion.

Far too much of Gia's story has been dictated by this single jerkoid. So, eleven years later, here's my message to the cowardly little boy who impregnated one hell of a woman.

Stop attacking the morality of a fourteen year old girl who selflessly terminated a pregnancy in order to prevent a child being brought into the world who neither parent had the ability to care for. Gia's decision preserved your youth and stopped a child from being raised in circumstances unfit for any child. So, why then, is it Gia's morality that's in question? What kind of fourteen year old boy has sex with a fourteen year old girl without protection and then starts an online smear campaign demonizing her for making a decision with her own body that best fit the needs of her, her family, and you? How did you plan on raising a child at the age of fourteen? How would you afford to feed it or watch over it? You would not have had the resources. You would dump it on her or your own parents and continue to live like the carefree little shit you are while occasionally playing with your son or daughter whenever it was most convenient. You both had unprotected sex at age fourteen, but it was Gia who was faced with an unforgettable decision. You owe her so much more than what you gave her. Your words suggest that you believe it was Gia's responsibility to give birth and that she somehow owed this fetus something. A pregnant woman does not owe a developing fetus anymore than the fetus owes his or her parent's an apology for being alive. Suck on that.

Gia took a job just eight miles away from her old junior high and next month she'll move back out to California to a town she has avoided for the past nine years (the town she departed before high school to escape misogynist pro-life bullying.) So, a big fuck you to pro-lifers. Looks like you lose. Again. Because Gia is not the girl who got an abortion at age fourteen. She's the super slick physics nerd with a smarty-pants engineering degree who only wears hoop earrings, taught me that frozen grapes will change your life as much as lip liner does, has a secret knowledge of mechanics who hopes to someday adopt foster children. #teamgia

Aborting Pro-Life Ideaology

The abortion debate is old, and has long ago went stale. It's not fresh nor would I ever cast it as such, but because some crazy folk enjoy arguing already settled, sealed n' dealed debates I have decided to devote a post to the topic. 

In order to justify such the notion of outlawing abortion, as a nation, we would need to completely exterminate lack of access to contraception, lack of contraceptive education, outlaw abstinence only sex education, have a massive sexual education reform, rid the world of all forms of sexual violence, exterminate all religious and spiritual beliefs that don’t adhere to this point of view, but that’s just naming a few.

And, if we do outlaw abortion, it's not like the act of terminating pregnancies is going to vanish. So then, who gets reprimanded for illegal abortion? Is it the abortionist or the woman who is brave and selfless enough to know she's unfit to go through with the pregnancy? Do we throw them all in jail? Americans love throwing people in jail, especially women of non violent crimes. That seems to be a reoccurring way for the government to “solve” social “ills” in this country. Sky high unemployment? A way to uphold white male privilege and the new racism? Newsflash, throwing people in jail for these acts is more "immoral" than abortion is and will ever be. Prison reform now anyone? Furthermore, by making abortion illegal you are cutting women off from safe abortion practices. Does the desire to terminate a pregnancy mean one deserves infection, infertility, or to bleed to death in an alleyway? 

Do you think women enjoy abortions? It’s not like everyone is running around eagerly awaiting to abort fetuses. It’s a option because one acknowledges they would be unfit, for whatever reason, to complete the pregnancy or birth of a child. So, if a woman can't decide whether or not she wants to go through with a pregnancy, have something develop inside her, give birth, who's decision is it? Simply put, if a woman doesn't own the rights to her own body, who does? The U.S.government?

Making abortion illegal is just another way to demonize women in general. Do some research before you decide to try to defend your paradoxical opinion. Try explaining to a rape victim, a mother already struggling to provide for her preexisting children, a high school student, women with no access to birth control or no education on how to properly use and obtain various forms of contraceptives, or hm, AN ENTIRE BIOLOGICAL SEX that they don’t have the right to their own bodies, and thus in the process, their own lives.