Follow me on a trip down memory lane, dear readers, to the early days of social media. Back in 2005, I was a few months away from getting married and was part of a wedding planning message board. Ten days before my wedding day, Michelle Duggar gave birth to her 16th child.
It became the hot-button issue on the boards and it became painfully clear early on that my view on the issue was in the minority: having 16 children was my preference, but who is Michelle Duggar harming if she has a lot of children?
Hoo boy. That was the wrong thing to say. I was told I (along with Mrs. Duggar) needed to be spayed like a dog so I couldn't 'breed', women advocated for forced abortions and China-inspired one-child policies, along with the removal of children from homes where there were 'too many' kids.
You'll be unsurprised to learn the political bent of these women was decidedly Left-wing.
My argument then, as it is now, is simple: if you're going to argue that it's a woman's body and a woman's choice, that cuts both ways.
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How many times have we seen the Left play that card when it comes to the issue of abortion? They love to paint it as both a serious, grave choice a woman has to make -- to emotionally manipulate voters and silence objections, of course. If you're a man, or a pro-life woman, you don't get a say in what she does with her body.
(Here I'll ignore that they also treat abortion as something women should celebrate with cake, friends and a glowing Associated Press headline).
The concept of 'my body, my choice' has always been a political canard. The Left are decidedly anti-choice, and they really don't like it when a woman decides to give an unborn child life:
jesus christ… this fundamentalist christian influencer is going forward with her ectopic pregnancy because she’s anti abortion. she’s facing the very real possibility of dying and leaving behind SEVEN other children. anti abortion messaging is so harmful to women. pic.twitter.com/QhQqeYoBL3
— winnie lark (@winnielark) October 24, 2024
So here we have a woman who -- in conjunction with her doctors and in accordance with her beliefs -- decided to carry a risky pregnancy to term.
An ectopic pregnancy is often thought of as a pregnancy that implants in the fallopian tube. As the embryo grows, it causes the tube to bleed and rupture, and can be fatal. But the actual definition of an ectopic pregnancy is one that occurs anywhere outside the uterus.
In the case of Alex (so dismissively described as a 'fundamentalist Christian'), her pregnancy implanted in a C-section scar. Having had three C-sections myself, I was aware of this risk with my last two pregnancies.
If you continue down the thread, Alex discusses, rather thoughtfully, what her ectopic pregnancy means and acknowledges the risks associated with it.
But rather than look at the thought process behind Alex's decision, the Left paints it as an insane fundamentalist brainwashed by the pro-life movement.
They did away with any pretense of 'my body, my choice' and we should never take them seriously when they say that, ever again, and not just on the issue of abortion. These are the same people who wanted to force millions of women to take a vaccine against their will or face unemployment, social isolation, and even the state removing their children from their home.
I doubt winnie lark has children of her own, so she also doesn't understand that a woman becomes a mother from the second she knows she's pregnant. I know the moment the test strip turned blue, I was a mom. It didn't matter that I was only several weeks pregnant: I had a baby, and I was his mother.
There wasn't anything I wouldn't do for that child from that moment on. And that continued after they were born. I would lay down my life for them before I let any harm come to them.
I assume that was Alex's line of thinking, too. She would risk her life to give life to her unborn child. Her living children saw this, and that message will stay with them forever. They know that mom will put them before herself.
That concept is, of course, anathema to the Left. They see everything through a lens of 'ME FIRST, ' so the thought of sacrificing for a spouse or a child is a foreign concept to them.
They also really, really don't like it when a woman makes a choice they disagree with.
If they were truly on board with 'my body, my choice', winnie lark's post would simply say that. Instead, she smears a woman as brainwashed by 'anti-abortion messaging.'
If the Left were truly pro-choice, they'd applaud Alex for making a choice that worked for her. Yet they never do.
They don't want women to have a choice unless it's the choice they would make for themselves. And they're almost honest enough to admit that.
Oh, and by the way:
Anyway, this woman and her daughter both survived. https://t.co/gCq7iyLZj0 pic.twitter.com/PiLCwtwgMH
— Emma Camp (@emmma_camp_) February 6, 2025
Guess she made the right choice after all.
