Today I will do challenge #20: a response to something ridiculous.
I love Ricky Gervais. He is an amazing person all around and super funny and proves to the world that atheists are not the devil. As a fellow atheist I love what he says about atheism and religion. He is very outspoken and is not afraid in the slightest to say what he feels.
Not too long ago he posted this: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/child-denied-abortion-after-rape-save-her-life. Essentially a little girl is denied abortion after being raped by her step-father. I suggest you read more about the story here.
It is just disgusting that in Paraguay you have to have life-threatening effects from pregnancy to be able to have an abortion. This angers me to no end because not only does that leave the "life threatening" up to the speculation of doctors but it removes the ability for someone to choose the rest of their life, or at least the next 9 months.
If I were to get pregnant I would get an abortion right away because I never want children. I don't even want to risk my body for another human in that way. As terrible as it sounds I don't want to cosmetically sacrifice my body for human life. I admire people that do sacrifice for their children but that is not something I want. I don't want children anyways so there is not a huge problem there.
My point is that this girl needs to have an abortion for health reasons, even though she has "Stabilized". Some doctors are arguing it would put more strain on her body to have the abortion than the birth, I'm not sure how true this is. If that is true than I would argue not to put her at risk.
The other thing that angers me is that her mother is in jail now for failing her duty to care. That's all her mother was trying to do. I am not sure what the fuck Paraguay is up to right now.
The other thing to do with abortion is that not only is she 10 but she was raped. She didn't even choose to have sex, her step-father raped her. Some people "for abortion" argue it should only be used for the reasons of rape and instability and that is exactly what this is.
What do you think? This whole situation makes me angry.
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