Every time he right to abortionanywhere in the world, is once again questioned or violated, the justifications to make us worthy of it. Stories and more stories of unwanted pregnancies resulting from a violation. Or high-risk pregnancies that cannot go ahead because life is in danger of the woman or the person who gestates. Or minor pregnancies. Or forced marriages. Dramatic situations, worthy of an episode of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. Dystopian scenes that we cannot believe, that shake us… that justify even those who are against the right to abortion to rethink it. What would you do if your daughter was raped and got pregnant? What would you do if your daughter’s life was in danger with the pregnancy? In order to convince the adversary – an entire network organized not to allow sexual and reproductive rights to be universal – we have to draw a apocalyptic scenario.
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We are not mistaken: the right to abortion is also for those unwanted pregnancies. You got pregnant and you didn’t want to. Because you don’t want to have children yet. Because you never want to have them. Because you have become pregnant with a sexual partner with whom you do not want to have children. Because it is not the time. Why don’t you make it to the end of the month? Because you like your life without children and you still don’t want them. Because you don’t like your life at all and you don’t want to have a child. Because you’ve fucked without a condom and got pregnant by a person whose name you don’t even remember. What do we care? Because you don’t want to be pregnant.
We don’t have to justify ourselves. The right to abortion does not need a dystopia to be deserved. It is a right, we do not have to earn it. We do not owe anyone a situation of precariousness, a violation or that our life is in danger so that it is granted to us, oh gods of the Earth who decide on our bodies. The right to abortion, the right to one’s own body, the right to make conscious and informed decisions must be universal. Moral debates, for moralists. An abortion without any borderline situation is no less legitimate. We don’t owe you anything. We don’t want your permission. And no one has apologized to you.