There's a kind of prolifer troll response to this thread that I'm kind of fascinated by: Some of them are very aggressively saying "Don't have kids if you feel that way." https://twitter.com/RutiRegan/status/1302450120932429824

On one level, this is fascinating to me from a sheer logic gap perspective: Why are anti-abortion trolls telling a pregnant woman who wants to have a baby "don't have kids"?

What, exactly, do they think I should do about it at this point?

But this kind of trolling is more interesting to me on another level: I am getting the sense that these particular trolls aren't actually offended by abortion — I think what they're actually offended by is the idea that women have a choice.

And this reminds me of something that I noticed at Planned Parenthood rallies during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. (This thread as-written is focused on women and I would write it in a more gender-inclusive way now.) https://twitter.com/RutiRegan/status/1038190612481290240

Since what these trolls actually object to is agency, they're just as offended by a woman *choosing* to be pregnant as they are by a woman choosing not to be.

And they're also offended by trans men and nonbinary people with uteruses, in an overlapping way.

Reproductive coercion trolls claim the right to define what someone else's body means.

In this context, they try to enforce some version of "your body means you have to be a woman, and being a woman means you have no right to control your own fertility."

We should reject both.

Everyone has the right to their own body.

Everyone has the right to decide what their body means to them and what they want to do with it.

Everyone has the right to their own gender.

I want a world that respects those rights.