BUT IT DOESN’T EVEN CONCERN YOU

Trigger warning: abortion.

I was scrolling through my Facebook feed this morning and saw a headline that was obviously clickbait. It was about abortion. I smelled bullshit right away and couldn’t help but click on it, even though I have zero idea how factual the numbers are. This is what I saw.

Immediately it made me so angry I couldn’t see straight. The man that shared this “article” by the Christian Daily Reporter is a straight, white, middle aged, extremely Christian, republican male from Oklahoma. I know him personally.

Abortion and the women who have them are zero percent his concern. Late in 2017, I had an ectopic pregnancy. They pushed very, very hard for me to have a D&C so that my tube wouldn’t rupture and I wouldn’t hemorrhage into myself. Thankfully chemo was enough to end the pregnancy but I very nearly had no choice because of the amount of blood loss I’d already sustained.

I just. That stupid page makes it seem like there’s a billion of them happening a day just because they’re happening. With no regard whatsoever as to why, like maybe a legitimate safety concern to the mother’s life. The screenshot above is the ENTIRE “article”. I didn’t comment on the post because I knew I was too mad and wouldn’t be able to lobby an intelligent response.

But I’m just so pissed off over the lack of information and religious anti-abortion horse shit that I want to