So, let me get this straight.

If someone believes I’m gender equality, then they are to be labeled a feminist no matter what. Feminists have made that quite clear.

But when someone believes in gender equality, but isn’t pro-choice, they’re suddenly not a feminist?

Gee, that’s sure confusing.

It’s really not.  Read my reply above.  It lays it out quite comprehensibly :)

Fuck you, I’m a feminist, I’m pro life, and think every little girl and boy has the right to be fucking born

None of this has anything to do with “little girls and boys* having the right to be born”. It does have everything to do with basic human rights.  You can’t deny people basic human rights and be a feminist.  You can’t prioritize non-sentient, non-autonomous fetuses over live, autonomous human beings and be a feminist.

And btw, the UN has classified forced pregnancy/lack of abortion access as torture.  Let me say that again: the UN, expert on what counts as torture, determined that what the pro-life movement wants…. IS TORTURE.  You can’t be pro-torture of pregnant people and call yourself feminist, yo.  Feel free to pick one!

*(nice gender binarism btw)

So, what if I believe that the human life begins at conception? That doesn’t make me automatically not a feminist, it makes me passionate about human rights and still have the belief that a human life is precious from conception.

Even following the premise that life begins at conception and a fetus’ life is equal to that of a grown and conscious human being, one life does not have a right to inhabit and force another life to provide for it.  No one is entitled to use another person’s body for survival.

Example: if someone with gets in an accident and needs a blood transfusion, no one can force someone else to donate blood to save the person.  Even if it is an incredibly rare blood type, the right to bodily autonomy trumps to hurt person’s right to use another person’s body without consent.

Another example:  For post-mortem organ donations, we require people to sign consent forms before they die.  If someone needs an organ transplant, you can’t take the organ from the corpse of a person who didn’t consent to it while they were alive, even though it doesn’t effect them in death and they have no way of knowing.  Which means our government respects the rights of a corpse more than pro-lifers respect the rights of a living pregnant person who doesn’t want their uterus used for 9 months of pregnancy.

I’ll say it again because it’s that important: No one is entitled to use another person’s body for survival.

I wish more people understood that this is the heart of the issue. Arguing against this point is basically saying that having sex somehow forfeits the right to bodily autonomy. And … No.

Also, can we please stop this bullshit of “it’s a living human being as soon as conception happened” because it’s not. It’s a cluster of cells that has the potential to become a human being. EARLY abortions are not denying a human being the right to life but the POTENTIAL of a human life, the same we do when using birth control.

That said, I absolutely disagree with late term abortions - aborting a child at an age at which other babies are born prematurely and manage to survive in incubators and intensive care is wrong and is actually the denial of life to another human being. 

FYI: The “late-term” thing is a straw man anti-abortion groups use to try to shoehorn in other restrictions. The only time abortions are performed that late is if there’s something critically wrong, either a serious threat to the carrier’s life or health, or a problem with the fetus. Criminalizing late-term abortions would only lead to people having to carry around fetuses that are already dead, dying, or would die shortly after birth. Horribly cruel.

^ Exactly.  92% of abortions are performed within the first 13 weeks. Only 1.2% occur at or after 21 weeks, and because abortive surgery becomes harder as time goes on, pretty much the only legal late-term abortions that are performed are medically necessary.  So there’s really no point in spending time and energy demonizing that 1.2% of all abortion recipients. And consider this: because 3rd trimester abortions are generally always medically necessary, the majority of pregnant people who receive them actually planned and wanted to keep the baby, but had to get the abortion at the last minute because of the risk to their own life or health.  So it’s extra shitty to stigmatize them, it’s essentially like demonizing someone for having a stillbirth.