Tonight, Natalie Maines, the singer who rose to fame as the lead vocalist for the Dixie Chicks, announced via Twitter that she will be attending a rally in Austin, Texas, tomorrow to “support Wendy Davis and women’s rights.”
A pro-life reader responded: “I am all for women’s rights, but I am also for the rights of unborn children to have life.”
Maines said that is impossible: to be pro-life is to be against women’s rights.
@Harmannymusic Then you're not for women's rights. There's a difference in pro-choice and pro-abortion.
— Natalie Maines (@1NatalieMaines) July 1, 2013
@Harmannymusic The point is, you shouldn't get to decide what everybody else believes. Let a woman and her doctor decide.
— Natalie Maines (@1NatalieMaines) July 1, 2013
In Maines’ eyes, abortion is not a conflict between the rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn child. Rather, it is simply about giving women control over their own bodies.
@Harmannymusic I only want to get to control my own body. That's all. Sorry, but you're the one looking to tell others what they should do.
— Natalie Maines (@1NatalieMaines) July 1, 2013
I need you to please back away and get your nose out of my uterus.
— Natalie Maines (@1NatalieMaines) July 1, 2013
@Harmannymusic Craig I'm all for babies being born when everybody is healthy and no rape has been committed, but it's not always the case.
— Natalie Maines (@1NatalieMaines) July 1, 2013
@kdceagle I'm pro-choice, not pro murder and I can't go round and round and round explaining the difference any longer.
— Natalie Maines (@1NatalieMaines) July 1, 2013
If giving women the right to “control their own bodies” is awesome at 5-6 months’ pregnancy, why not 7 months? Or 8? Or 9?
Problem is there's another body to consider “@1NatalieMaines: @Harmannymusic I only want to get to control my own body. That's all.
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) July 1, 2013
@1NatalieMaines You will see me, but I won't be standing with Wendy. I'll be standing for the basic human right to be born.
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) July 1, 2013
@1NatalieMaines @Harmannymusic No… you don't have the right to murder another person… and that is what abortion is… plain & simple.
— William E Lanning Jr (@USPatriot1776) July 1, 2013
@1NatalieMaines @Harmannymusic I submit that you are not for rights in general, Natalie. You certainly do not support a baby's right to life
— William E Lanning Jr (@USPatriot1776) July 1, 2013
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