Abortion, it's a big subject. I have an image fixed in my memory, Carlos Larraín, a chilean politician, saying something like he wouldn't even discuss about abortion because he wanted to avoid all women the pain of aborting a baby.
It makes me really angry that people like him thinks that he is the one to decide for me what can I do and what it's prohibited. I really believe that that decision, that never can be an easy one, must be only made for the woman in the situation, with the support of her family, friends and, if he is in the picture, the eventual dad, but I must emphasize: support! it's not for any except the woman to decide if she will put up with 9 month whit her body and life being disrupted, and most important, if she wants to be a mother.
I don't think that a fetus isn't live until far advanced the pregnancy, just when the fetus can survived outside the uterus it isn't a life, is just a possibility of a life, and as all possibilities, it comes with the obligation of making a decision (that, as I said, it must rely only in the eventual mom). That decision, in EVERY case, no mater if the pregnancy it's due a rape, and accident, etc, must be toke thinking if this life is really wanted in this world, if it would be a baby, a child, a person that will be surrounded by love and care (it's sounds very sentimental, I know), and we shouldn't believe that every pregnancy it's automatically supposed to become in a child.
Finally, remembering the words of Larraín, I have already said that I hate that people like him think's that he can make decision about my body and my life, but really, the think that I hate te most, it's that he actually can make that decision for me, making me, an all women, no able to speak up and make decision about her owns lives.


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