We Asked, You Answered: Responding to, “Why did you vote against your daughter’s rights?”
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We asked our followers on social media:
POV: You voted against your state’s abortion amendment. Now you’re sitting with extended family around Thanksgiving dinner when your cousin turns to you and says, “I don’t understand why you vote against women’s rights when you have a daughter.”
How do you respond?
Here are a sampling of responses.
Christine S.: My daughters were my daughters in the womb.
Robin A.: I don’t appreciate you assuming we agree on what is a woman’s right or what is best for my daughter.
Lexi M.: I don’t understand why you’re here at a family dinner for the holiday trying to cause issues. I teach my children that decisions have consequences and now it’s time for you to learn that same lesson. Leave now. That is your consequence.
Sara N.: I would answer:
“I think girl’s rights should start in the womb and that unborn girls have the right to life. I’m born in a country that allowed sex selected abortions which ended with millions of girls dying in the womb. Girls were seen as less valuable in some cultures and removed. In addition many times women are pressured into an abortion because of either poverty, their partner wants them to do it or other difficult circumstances. Abortions may be emotionally and psychologically traumatic for a woman to go through. Fighting for girl’s and women’s rights from life starts till natural death is voting for women’s rights.”
If it was my closest family members, I would also explain them why I think it would be wrong if my biological mother aborted me. Fortunately she put me away for adoption instead.
Hugh Comer, M.D.: I oppose the murder of my grandchildren.
KJ: I voted for her and because of her. When I was pregnant with her she deserved all the rights and protections of the law then as she does now. She never deserved to have her life intentionally cut short.
Virginia M.: “You don’t get to use my daughter as emotional leverage when you support my supposed right to abort her.” I don’t do civility when people try to manipulate me like that, and especially at a family gathering meant to be fun and chill.
Cecilia G.: My daughter knows that if she ever gets pregnant due to a lapse of judgment, the child she has conceived is a part of our family.
Hugh Comer, M.D.: I oppose the murder of my grandchildren.
Christine S.: My daughters were my daughters in the womb.
Alvaro: Why do you want to discuss this in Thanksgiving dinner? What is your real motivation? How do you want this conversation to go? How do you see this helping you? How do you expect this discussion will affect this dinner, our family, and our relationship?
Karl S.: I don’t think this is a healthy start to a productive or edifying discussion. Let’s defer this to another time and place. I love you and care more about being in relationship with you than fighting over our differences.
Fraser J.: Pass the gravy plz
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