Liz Smith
Liz Smith
Feb 24, 2017 · 1 min read

Well it’s not your bodies and rights they want control over, is it?

The selfish ones, if anything, were the pro-lifers, because they had to make it all about their stuff. All they had to do was join in quietly without, for one day in their lives, preaching about abortion — but they couldn’t do it. If they wanted to be allies they’d have put that shit aside for one day and joined us in what we were campaigning for — the ground we did agree on — instead of turning up with their pro-life propaganda. How on earth did they think that campaigning to restrict women’s rights over their own bodies would be received at a march that was primarily about protecting women’s rights, including the right to choose not to continue a pregnancy?

A woman can be as pro life as she wants for herself — nobody is forced to have an abortion if they don’t want one. All I ask is that they stay out of other women’s uteruses.

    Liz Smith

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    Liz Smith

    Writer. Editor. Survivor of life. Mental health worker, counselling student, feminist, bookworm and unashamedly weird. www.wordsceneservices.co.uk

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