You can see the tweets from 40 Days of Choice and their supporters by following the #prochoicefriend hashtag
What strikes me immediately is seeing the range of choices on offer from these pro-choice friends. Or rather, the lack of choice. Out of all the tweets with the #prochoicefriend hashtag - I can find only one tweet that offers to help someone who wants to have the baby. All of the others offer money or support in obtaining abortion procedures, or parties/alcohol following the abortion.
Some tweeters offer to throw a party after the abortion. One offers a "sweet not=pregnant" party. None of these tweets belie the gravity of abortion. No tweeter cautions that there is a growing number of women expressing regret following their abortions. Nor does any tweeter point to the suffering of women involved in groups like Women Hurt. Flippant suggestions of 'partying' after abortion must be so hurtful to women who have suffered years of distress following their abortions.
Some tweets are disrespectful - such as 40 Days of Choice telling pro-life people to "eff off". Some are non-sensical such as a tweet from Education for Choice (delivered with zero irony) on the annual death toll of 47,000 women who die from abortions. Yet Education for Choice advocates access to abortion, the very thing that killed these women.
None of the tweeters address the discrimination and societal failure that drives women to abortion in the first instance - many women feel that abortion is their only option, which isn't a choice at all. Ben's tweet says it all on abortion being 'liberating' for women. Abortion doesn't change the social circumstances that push women towards abortion --- but abortion is a get-out clause for unwilling fathers.
I'll end this post with a picture from 40 Days for Choice's facebook page.
Sometimes you just know you're on the right side. Seeing this poster was one of those times.
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