If a woman gets pregnant unintentionally, she should go to the store, buy some straws, and suck it up because life's a bitch.
Or she could buy some Plan-B.
Also, that logic can be applied both ways. Don't like abortion? "[You] should go to the store, buy some straws, and suck it up because life's a bitch."
Snarkiness aside (I apologize if that came off as rude, it just came to mind and I had to type it), what claim does anyone have to forcing a mother to endure pregnancy? Are we so high and mighty that we get to collectively decide the fate of a woman's uterus? How is it that the nature of telling someone to just endure the pregnancy has become akin to that of punishment? When you say that it's their own fault,
even though there's a solution to their problem, people are essentially saying "you fucked up, now here's your punishment." Some beautiful thing pregnancy is if it's punishment, aye?
As for abortions being murder... Murder is the intentional, malicious, and premeditated killing of one human being by another. Now I neither agree that the killing of a fetus is done with malice nor do I agree that a fetus is a human being. I think the big difference here is that a fetus is entirely dependent on the mother for its existence and well-being - one person in exclusion of all others. A human being is not. Babies tend to be dependent on their mothers, but they're not
exclusively dependent. Someone else can naturally help them out, whereas that is not the case with a fetus. If we're not killing a human being, would you still argue that it's immoral? What if you eat meat? Meat doesn't come from human beings either, yet we're somehow trying to justify not killing a non-human while killing another type of non-human is okay (I eat meat, I'm not a vegan or vegetarian but it is important for me to cover all bases)? No, I don't think abortion is an issue that extends beyond the scope of species and blanket statements about what it means to be human and what it means to murder. I think it's something that should be kept simple and left to the whims and wants of those who it concerns - the exclusive caretakers; the mothers.
So for the judgement and decision of the exclusive caretaker to be ignored in favor of our moral high-horses is just silly to me. We don't have the right to delve into the lives of others just to fulfill our dogmatic impulses. That's bigotry. Abortion is not my choice, and it's not yours either. To me, it's
their choice... and that's why I'm pro-choice.