pocketporg:

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My amazing redeemed boy.

HIS FUCKING SHRUG SENT ME

pocketporg:

I JUST REALIZED THAT HIS LITTLE NOD WAS HIM TELLING HER IT WAS OK TO TELL PALPATINE THEY WERE A FORCE DYAD BECAUSE GIVING HIM THE LIGHT SABER WOULD REVEAL THEIR BOND AND BEN WAS TRYING TO HIDE THEM BEING A DYAD FROM PALPATINE TO PROTECT REY THE WHOLE MOVIE BUT IT WAS ALSO “YES IT’S ME BEN TRUST ME” IM SO EMOTIONAL

Anonymous asked: I just can’t get over the fact that you call yourself a Christian and claim to care about the least and most marginalized among us, and yet you support, even promote, abortion. You don’t even qualify it with “only in extreme cases” or that it should be avoided if possible, you just think it’s totally fine to kill a baby if the mother decides they don’t want it. I just think it’s really sad and that you’re steering all your followers who look up to you down a bad path.

blessedarethebinarybreakers:

Hey there, anon. i hope you’re doing well, and that you’ll give this response a read since i’ve spent a whole evening writing it out haha. After all, if you are going to call my identity as a Christian into question it seems only fair to genuinely listen to my defense. 

What would “promoting” abortion look like? …telling people to “hurry, go get pregnant just so you can get an abortion!”? (this is a genuine question, i’m not trying to be snarky – it’s just a confusing word choice to me.) 

Seeing as, according to a quick search of my blog, i haven’t so much as mentioned or reblogged a post mentioning the word “abortion” since May 11 (so, over 3 months ago), and after over 5 whole years of running this blog only have 5 posts in my #abortion tag (only 2 being original posts), it seems a little hyperbolic to claim that i’m “promoting” abortion. 

To the contrary of “promoting” abortion, i actually don’t think i’ve made my stance clear enough in the past. So thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify my stance now: 

i am pro choice, i am in favor of safe, affordable (ideally free, i am a socialist), legal abortions for anyone who wants one – without them having to explain or justify their reason. 

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i am pro real choice – meaning i don’t want anyone to feel like either remaining pregnant or getting an abortion is the only choice available to them. It should truly be their choice – not a choice made due to outside pressure, or poverty, or guilt or shame, or fear, or prejudice, or lack of education. 

Being pro-choice for me means not only being pro abortion but also being anti-eugenics; and anti forced sterilizations (of indigenous persons and other POC, of trans persons, of intersex persons, of disabled persons, of poor persons). It means making sure no one feels pressured to abort a pregnancy they’d otherwise have wanted just because the fetus is disabled. 

Being pro-choice for me means getting resources to people who do want to keep their pregnancy so that they have the means to raise a child. 

i am pro educated, well-informed choice – getting all necessary information to people so they know the pros and cons of maintaining a pregnancy or aborting it – and so they know how to keep themselves safe during sex to avoid unwanted pregnancies where possible.

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Anon, i understand why it’s hard to fathom a Christian who worships a God who cares for the most marginalized among us being pro-choice/pro-abortion. i was pro-life all through high school because i was raised Catholic and i was taught, as you word it, that being pro-choice means “you just think it’s totally fine to kill a baby.” That intentionally graphic language is pretty hard to argue against! So for years i also could not understand how anyone could be pro-abortion. But i assure you, most pro-choice Christians have put a lot of thought into their stance. 

Scientifically and theologically/biblically, there just is not enough evidence to declare that a fetus “has a soul” or that life “begins at conception” (and if it does, what does that mean?). Maybe the fetus has a soul, maybe it does not – i don’t claim to be the holder of that knowledge. Meanwhile, there is plenty of evidence that human beings are harmed when abortion is not safe, legal, and de-stigmatized – when compelled to find dangerous alternatives; when forced to raise a child they have no resources for; when shamed and ostracized for their choices, and so on. 

• There is evidence that outlawing abortion leads to unsafe abortions with complications, and that people without access to abortion often attempt suicide. 
• There is also evidence that the anti-abortion / pro-life movement began not because of a long-held concern for unborn babies but because of racism and a desire to uphold segregation and prevent interracial children. 

I’m going to end by linking a couple articles by Christians who are pro-choice – not in an attempt to necessarily change your viewpoint, anon, but perhaps to help you understand how a Christian could be pro-choice. I hope that you will read them and see that we are just as Christian as you, just as concerned for the marginalized – we have simply come to a different conclusion about who the marginalized are. For me, i stand with the people who are most negatively affected by a lack of safe and legal abortion, who include among them impoverished persons, people of color, LGBTQ+ persons, and minors. 

• Here’s a short article on being pro-choice and Christian
• And a longer one that goes through the history of abortion, what the Bible “says” (and doesn’t say) about abortion, and ends with a discussion on finding common ground between pro-life and pro-choice Christians, which I think you might appreciate, anon. 

i’ll wrap up by saying that i hope i never steer my followers to unquestionably adopt my own beliefs – i mean hey, uh, y’all? i’m just some random person on the internet! i don’t have a secret access to God’s Truths; i would never claim that every belief i have is 100% right (in fact, i can guarantee that, limited human that i am, i most certainly do not have everything right). i’m just doing my best to share what i’ve uncovered in my studies and my contemplation, and do my best to humbly remain open to the Spirit’s guidance towards a change of mind and heart whenever i need it. i hope that each of my followers will do their own research, their own discerning, and come up with their own beliefs around abortion and every other “issue.” 

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