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I read this paragraph of the Children By Choice campaign update at least five times before I could comprehend what it actually means. It means that, in Cairns, there is actually a prosecution lawyer arguing that Tegan Leach should go to jail because she elected to end a pregnancy that did not endanger her physical or mental health.
In 2010!
In the age where feminism isn’t relevant anymore, there is a man in court arguing that a girl didn’t need to get an abortion to save her life, therefore she committed a crime and should go to jail.
In the age of apparent gender equality, a debate is going on right now about whether it’s against the law or not if women exercise choice over their own bodies.
AND THIS IS A VALID FACT OF LAW.
Women of Queensland, GET MAD.
The fact that the issue of a woman’s right over her own body is even being debated by a prosecution lawyer in an attempt to send Tegan Leach to jail simply reeks of misogyny and backwater, conservative power dynamics and it is incomprehensible that such a fundamental issue could be debated in a courtroom in 2010.
Oh Queensland, how can I defend you now?
(via overdosebabyblue)
SOOOO FUCKING ANGRY ABOUT THIS WHOLE SITUATION.