Death of Savita Halappanavar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soz, I thought it was pretty well known, I saw it all over tumblr/facebook
but basically she was having a miscarriage and she went to the hospital and she needed an abortion but under Irish law she couldn't have one because the fetus's heart was still beating, she ended up getting septicaemia and got multiple organ failure from that and died. Totally unnecessary.
I just don't really get anyone who's pro-life, I read this great quote from a catholic nun saying
"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.".
And honestly, the pro-life movement doesn't care about children after they are born. They don't realise if it were easier to access birth control or to have more childcare and actually comprehensive sex ed (here in America, I don't know about other countries) etc etc then we wouldn't have so much abortion.
I'm all for abortion though, I don't know if I could make that choice myself but that's me and I don't want anyone else to not have that choice.
Also, for anyone on the fence about this matter should honestly read Cider House Rules, because it's got a really great perspective on pro-life vs pro-choice.