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Summary
Human Rights Aisha Yesufu advises that women be allowed to make choices regarding their own body after an X user condemns abortion.
Popular Human Rights Activist Aisha Yesufu has advised people to stop telling women what to do when they conceive. This comes after a post made by X user Anna Lulis on Dec. 4, 2024, where she posts a video of two babies with the caption “Valuable and worthy of life. No child should be aborted.”
In response, Aisha quoted her with “Don’t abort yours. Let others be! It is not too difficult to ask! Women have died because some feel they have a right to dictate what women do with their bodies.”
“You see how it’s mostly men in these comments talking and arguing like it’s their body,” @Ellaoguejiofor1 replied.
Research has proven in recent times that even though women are emotionally resilient, abortions have been linked to better physical health, financial security, aspirational ambitions, and the capacity to care for current and future children.
According to Diane Greene Foster, “Access to abortion enables women to have children at a time when they have more resources – financial and emotional—to devote to their children.”
Similarly, in a research article by Christina San Filippo titled “Why women should make the abortion decision: damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” she mentions a related study that looked at the causes of abortions was published in 2013 by BioMed Central Women’s Health. Participants in the Turnaway Study were asked to explain their reasons for wanting an abortion. The responses from those 954 women from 30 abortion facilities across the US were examined in this study.
Many of the reasons provided by women in this survey fell under the broad categories of inconvenient timing, partner-related problems, and financial instability. Some ladies, however, looked into additional factors that influenced their choice. Twelve percent of the respondents cited health concerns about the foetus, themselves, or both. One woman claimed that she felt it would constitute child abuse to bring a baby into the world knowing that it would have life-altering deformities because the medicine she was taking for her bipolar disorder was known to cause birth problems.
Although, pro-life advocate sees it as wickedness for women to abort babies, it often runs deeper than that.
