Please pardon me and lock this if it has shown up before. I looked around and didn't find any other threads like this, but may have missed one. Also, I was at a bit of a standstill in regards to which forum this belongs in, since it has to do with abortion, but not
directly to it. I decided to put it here based on that it had more to do with people's opinions of those in the voters' booths than it does with the clinics themselves.
First of all, I am an aromantic asexual. For those of you who haven't heard of us (and there are quite a few.. we make up a mighty 1% of the population
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I have heard many people say that gays, lesbians, and asexuals should not have the right to have a say in any argument pertaining to abortion, because they will most likely never be in any situation where they are personally exposed to it (excepting the cases where friends and family become/get someone pregnant, in which case our influence is generally not heeded). On the flip side, it is just as often said that anyone given the chance to form an opinion should be able to express it, as is our constitutional right.
I'm at a bit of a standstill. I've only heard the former argument from Pro-Choicers who, after finding out what I am, take great pleasure in 'reminding' me to mind my own business and that I shouldn't try to control someone else's life when "I couldn't even begin to understand what's going on." Well, I'D like to know if MY neighbors were stuffing babies in their garbage cans, but I guess I'm just not entitled to that, now, am I?
razz On the other, what if it really
isn't any of my business? As I.Am suggested with his lovely thread in the main forum, most PCers tend to think we are "one trick ponies" and barrade us with their belief that all PLers are against women's choice in general, and their stereotype of us is that 90% of us are males who 'don't have anything to do with the fetus in the first place'. In that sense, asexuals have FAR less to do with anything, since the majority of us have never willingly created another life while we were aware of our orientation.
So, what do you believe? Should gays, lesbians, and asexuals have a right to state what they think on this? Please no flaming minorities, or saying that "asexuality isn't real." While you have the right to believe whatever you want, these opinions aren't relevent to the current conversation and also happen to be pretty rude.
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