Abortion is a Matter of Personal Freedom

If we men could get pregnant, abortion would be available at every corner dairy, advertised on billboards, and funded by a special ACC levy. We'd have drive-through abortion clinics with loyalty cards – tenth one free.

Those who oppose abortion rights typically fall into three categories: religious buggers, political opportunists seeking votes from the aforementioned buggers, and individuals who have appointed themselves guardians of other people's morality. These people alone should not influence public policy.

Ban abortion, and you don't eliminate it – you create a dangerous black market where desperate women risk their lives. We've seen this before with the war on drugs, and indeed with abortion itself, with backstreet butchers.

The same people who endlessly moan about the welfare state simultaneously force women to bear children they cannot afford to raise. When I pointed this out to a friend once, before mumbling something about "personal responsibility." I asked him who would take "personal responsibility" for these unwanted children – the Government, perhaps?

If these anti-abortion wets truly cared about reducing abortion numbers, they'd be the strongest advocates for contraception access. That they typically oppose these measures reveals their true agenda – controlling women.

One infuriating aspect of this debate is the attempt to paint abortion as some casual, frivolous decision. Any woman who has faced this choice knows it's anything but. Women don’t need politicians to "protect them" from their own decisions.

New Zealand finally removed abortion from the Crimes Act in 2020, an embarrassingly overdue reform. We had reached the absurd situation where women needed to claim mental health issues to access a legal abortion.

The state has no business interfering in deeply personal decisions that primarily affect the individual making them. I don't want politicians in my investment portfolio, bedroom, or medical decisions – and neither should you.