Reply #39: a powerful motivation to keep abortion safe and available, for sure [View All]

[pitohui]

obviously i can't give a child up for adoption and take a risk that my privacy would be violated at some unknown time in the future -- and most especially i can't take that risk if i'm a victim of incest, live in an extremely religious or rightwing community etc.

i can see your point of view but would you better off if you were not born at all? because that is the only option a lot of women could even consider if they could be traced back to the child they gave up


if the only choice were adoption under those terms, because abortion was not available, many women would choose to kill themselves, i would have, many others would de facto kill themselves thru dangerous techniques like coat hanger self-induced abortions

i think there's a limit on what we can expect women to sacrifice after they've already made the sacrifice to carry you for 9 months, if she wants to remain unknown and her story and DNA kept unknown, i don't know how it can be right to disrespect that