When You Decide to Have Sex You Are Not Handing Over Control of Your Body to the State

When I saw Alison Leiby's Oh God! A Show About Abortion I was struck when Leiby said that 25% of women will terminate a pregnancy during their lifetime, but we don't talk about how common this experience is. This silence - with a taint of supposed shame - is what helps legislators pass legislation regarding abortion and is why women live in fear of getting pregnant when they don't want to be.

Our language determines how we think and talk about abortion. I'm actively "pro-choice" because I think that women should not be forced to have children they don't want, and I think we have advanced socially enough to separate having sex (which is how most people get pregnant) with actually BEING pregnant. To say "I don't think having sex means you have to have children" is simple. People have sex for any number of reasons and actively participating in the procreation of the species is only ONE of those reasons that people have sex with one another.

We're waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a decision on Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Dept of Health v Jackson Women's Health Organization, but a draft by Justice Alito was leaked to Politico.

I thought I could start a blog with a short URL to ensure women maintain control over what happens to their bodies even if they have sex with men. This is also a test. There is a law in Texas making it a crime to provide information to someone who wants an abortion. Is this website a crime if it's not hosted in Texas?

Many of these organizations need financial help; some need political advocacy, some ask for digital advocacy. If you don't need an abortion but want to help those who can, look here for organizations that ask for help.

Why you may want an abortion is nobody's business but your own.

All people have bodily autonomy, even women.

Thank you for all you do.