Thread by @cache_pas

That a woman’s uterus is a political playground, a space that can be controlled and legislated by the state, that people think it’s ok to force women to give birth, to rob her of HER decision, this is some of the grimmest proof of the patriarchal dehumanisation of women.

We argue with anti choicers, try to convince them of something so simple: what’s in my body, regardless of how it got there, is my business, and no one else’s. What I do with that is my prerogative and my right.

But then it hits me how insane it is that this even needs to be said. That the DEBATE about whether the state can control our intimate space, our private lives, our futures, is taken as standard. That women’s lives are UP FOR DEBATE. That is the worst part.

So many men have opinions on whether women should be “allowed” control over their own bodies. So many women approach this debate as an acceptable one where our bodies can and should be legislated, but just “how much” is the question.

No. That there is even a debate AT ALL is misogyny.

We say this often, and it is worth repeating again and again and again: if men were the ones who got pregnant, abortion wouldn’t be a debate. It would be a given. It would be a simple healthcare procedure.

It is so clear that for too many, a foetus is given more humanity than the woman who carries it. More empathy, consideration. More *life* than the living, breathing woman whose own fate hangs in the balance.

Our bodies are patriarchy’s playground, our humanity an inconvenience.

Abortion isn’t a complex debate. It’s a very very simple one. Does a woman get to dictate what happens to her body at any point in time regardless of YOUR feelings on the matter? If no, you dehumanise her. It is that simple. End of.