Heated debates about the Texas Heartbeat Act are still continuing on. Women are not at all happy about how the government is treating them and they are employing metaphors, comparisons and appealing to the politicians’ conscience to make them understand that approving that bill was a mistake and that it violates their rights.
This topic is trending on Twitter and there are many people saying what their stance on it is. One of them is Dr. Elizabeth Markowitz, whose tweet got a lot of support for saying that she doesn’t want babies murdered, she just wants women to stay alive and healthy.
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Twitter user Dr. Elizabeth Markowitz made a thread of why abortion has to be a woman’s right and people really liked it
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Having an abortion is never an easy decision to make. Both an abortion and pregnancy may have long-lasting consequences on a mother’s mental and physical health. So choosing one or the other is tough.
What is easy is blaming women for murdering their unborn children. It is easy to categorize people into pro-life and pro-choice as if there is nothing in between and mothers who choose to terminate their pregnancies are the most evil people in the world who have no souls.
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In the thread, Dr. Markowitz presents 11 hypothetical situations that a lot of women are in and who should be able to have the choice
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It’s really not that straightforward. And Dr. Markowitz gives perfect examples of that. She gives 11 hypothetical situations that are all true and are reality to many women all around the world. The stories really resonated with people as the thread was liked by 66k people.
Yes, a child that is growing in a woman’s womb is a life, but what if they are so undeveloped or are at high risk of having an incurable disease that their life would be constant pain and would consist of constant hospital visits? It is possible that they even wouldn’t survive for that long and that would be even more heartbreaking to witness as the parents would have already created a relationship with the child.
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Dr. Markowitz talks about women who were raped and realized they are carrying the child of their assailant, or girls that were sexually abused and then had a baby growing in them when they themselves are just children.
The Twitter user also talks about women who have to choose not to have the baby because otherwise it would be them who would not survive. There are also situations when women have to think about their financial situation and even if they want another child, they just couldn’t provide them with a quality life.
The situations are heartbreaking and showcase that deciding to have an abortion is not easy as some may paint it to look like
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There are so many other heartbreaking situations, even more than mentioned in these tweets. Deciding to have an abortion is not the same as deciding which flavor cake to buy for your birthday. Whether in the end a woman chooses to do it or not, it will have an impact for the rest of her life.
And the only person who knows best what consequences she can live with more calmly is the woman and no one else. People in the comments were saying that a woman doesn’t even need to have a super wild reason to end her pregnancy. The emotional aspect is enough. Not feeling prepared to be a parent is enough. It is dangerous to make a person have children if they feel in their hearts that they will not be able handle it.
With these stories, Dr. Malkowitz is saying that she indeed is pro-life and the lives she is defending are women’s lives and their futures
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Dr. Markowitz wanted to show that women who choose an abortion or would like to have it as an option are not murderers. With this thread, she shows that she is pro-life and those lives she cares about are women’s lives.
And she is talking not only about when a woman is at risk of dying because of her pregnancy. The Twitter user suggests that women deserve a quality life and they deserve the right to be the ones in charge of their future.
Even if the reason why a woman chooses an abortion is not life-threatening, the Twitter user still claims that it’s their choice
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So what do you think of this thread and the stories that Dr. Markowitz presented? Do any of them resonate with you and do you think that they could convince someone who is anti-abortion to consider the other side? Leave us your thoughts in the comments!
Many people in the comments strongly agreed with the thread and saw the Texas abortion restrictions as unconstitutional
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