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Crosswalk example illustrating women with unwanted pregnancies as being innocent

The person hit in the crosswalk arrives at the hospital:

Doctor: What were you doing, walking outside like that?

Crosswalk person: I was walking to the grocery store.

Doctor: Why didn't you take Marble st. instead of City ave. City ave. has a lot of fast cars on it and if you hadn't been there, this car wouldn't have hit you.

Crosswalk person: Sorry, I just wasn't thinking clearly about it at the time.

Doctor: And why were you walking to the grocery store anyway? Did you need to go to the grocery store? Where you out of groceries or were you just going to get soda?

Crosswalk person: Um... I am not sure what that has to do with anything cause I need help regardless, but since you ask, I was going to get soda.

Doctor: Well sorry, but we cant help you. You should have thought about what street to take and if it was really necessary before you decided to walk to the grocery store. Going to the grocery store for soda isn't a good enough reason to get access to medical care. Next time think about protecting yourself and maybe not going to the grocery store for soda unless you can live with the possible consequence of getting hit by a car. Oh, also you are responsible for the hospital bill for the driver of the car.

There was a previous post on reddit that compared women having consensual sex to drunk driving and then saying ''I didn't consent to hitting that person.'' I find in weird that a woman having consensual sex for pleasure needs to be compared to doing some sort of criminal or wrongful activity. Either you have to believe that consensual sex for pleasure is wrong to some degree, in which case, why? Or you don't, but you think that what happens in an abortion is so abhorrent, that the only way you can justify that you are oppressing women and controlling their bodies, is by trying to pin blame on her for essentially ''walking to the store.''

Ultimately, there is some justification being used as to why you would force the burden of an unwanted pregnancy and birth onto an innocent woman when she has a way to stop the pregnancy.

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