Just want to give a little shout out to something good that KZfaq have done: after manual review, this video has been monetised and deemed as suitable for advertisers! This is the first pro-choice video I've made which has been monetised and I just want to say thank you to KZfaq for that - not because of the money (that's still going to be in escrow because the LaBrant's network copyright claimed this video) but because it shows KZfaq, as a platform, are supporting and not suppressing pro-choice, science-based content and content which supports the rights of women and afab people! This is fantastic to see and I am so happy about it!

It's hard to have calm and rational conversations with someone who is screaming that you're a murderer and going to hell.

My brother was born with half a brain, lived for 2 years mostly in a hospital. Was in continuous pain, had between 100-150 seizures a day. Was unable to move, was blind, and did not live a life. The doctor was aware of the issue however never told my parents so they were unable to make the decision to have an abortion. In this case an abortion would have been more humane.

The statistically proven way to reduce the number of abortions is good sex education, easy access to birth control, and a supportive social provision for health care during pregnancy and post natal, plus support to feed the unplanned extra mouth in families on the poverty line or below it. Strange that all those against abortion are also against the things that are proven to reduce abortion levels.

Imagine if all of this anti-abortion energy went into Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Assistance to actually save the lives of real fully sentient people that direly need the help.

pregnancy should be talked about more realistically and seriously. and not so romanticized. women come out of child birth traumatized from the lack of understanding to the costs of labor

Pregnancy and childbirth can be very traumatic and cause lots of complications. Making a woman go through that against her will is abusive

I LOVE the "If my mother (grandmother.... w.e.) had aborted I wouldn't be here" argument. If you weren't here, YOU WOULD NOT CARE ABOUT THAT FACT BECAUSE YOU LITERALLY COULD NOT. Life- FOMO in a fetus is not a thing.

Former PP worker. We had a 13 year come in with her Mom. Both pregnant by abusive husband/father. It would be torture to force both to continue their pregnancies. We also helped both get into a shelter. I recommend watching “If These Walls Could Talk” about abortion rights.

It’s actually disgusting that they compared abortion to genocide…

It's disgusting that they are confusing "breeding" with "parenting". They don't see their own children as fully being people.

My pro-life family always said "when you have a kid you'll be on our side", but having had a child now only solidified my pro-choice stance. Because the hell i went through during my pregnancy and birth is not something anyone should have to be forced to go through. I was constantly miserable and in pain through the duration of my pregnancy and am permanently disabled from a botched c-section. I felt all the pain as the epidural failed and I was told after that i would never have been able to give natural birth. Both me and my son would have died if i hadnt had the emergency c-section, that they messed up 3 times. They advised me to not have any more (didnt want any more anyway). Nobody should have to go through that. That was nearly 3 years ago now and i'm still suffering physically. Also just to be snide half of these pro-lifers cant even tell between a human and dolphin fetus.

In middle school I knew a girl who's parents constantly told her that she ruined their life and that they wished she didn't exist. It was so heartbreaking to hear about and I'm sure horrible for her to have to live with. Forcing people who don't want children to have children doesn't automatically make a happy family. 😞

It's important to remember that the "pro-life" movement is not about reducing abortion or "saving babies," it's about punishing women for non-reproductive sex. There's a reason why the Republicans banning abortion are also trying to ban condoms and birth control, and advocate for abstinence only education.

My body isn’t right for pregnancy. I have a 7 year old son. During my pregnancy I was covered in over 250 open sores and abcesses all at one time due to my immune system. I was in so much pain as I couldn’t take my pain relief that I was suicidal. The labour and delivery was horrendous my body rejected the drugs and my child it was hell. Not to mention I developed sepsis whilst pregnancy I had a mental breakdown after everything. I’m doing everything I can to prevent getting pregnant again but if I accidentally did I would have to have an abortion no questions asked I just couldn’t do it again my body couldn’t cope I mentally wouldn’t cope and likely would commit suicide. I hate that people who are pro life don’t think about the pregnancy itself they just think about the outcome. I’m pro choice everyone has a right to their own sanity and body x

Having a baby is a luxury these days. I don't understand how can you be pro-life and at the same time not supporting longer paid maternity and paternity leave for new parents, or free healthcare, education and so on

It is disgusting that they are using pregnancy as punishment. Abortion is not a way to escape responsibility. Having one is a responsible decision if you know you are not ready. Abortion is healthcare and it's a private medical issue. Your body, your choice. Not your body, not your business. Great video!

The most disgusting part about this (minus the part where they compare abortion to genocide) is the fact that they are showing this to their mainly child audience. Kids don’t know how to comprehend such topics, and will automatically assume that it’s bad. I first heard of abortion when I was 10, and I disagreed with it in all cases. Then I became a teenager and did the proper research and realized that I was pro-choice. When kids hear this (very poor) description of abortion, they will be traumatized and think that it’s bad when it’s not.

I'm only here BECAUSE my mom had an abortion. My mom got pregnant with a guy she wasn't super into. In the cultural/religious context, she would have faced INCREDIBLY STRONG pressure (essentially forced) to marry the guy. She ended up aborting in secret before anyone knew. She then met and married my dad. They've been married for a few decades and have a few kids now. (So I hate this BS about "what if I had been aborted???!?!)

My mom was very sick her entire life, but chose to have me. Her entire family was furious with her for risking her life like that, some of them for YEARS after it. She went through three doctors before one would finally agree to work with her through the pregnancy. While I required a lot of postnatal care and was in the hospital for a month, we both lived. I was told growing up that abortion is "never okay because if she could have me, why couldn't other women?" As an adult, I've come to realize that what made her choice to have me was just that- her CHOICE. She wanted me, and THAT'S what made the experience worth it for her and my father. Honestly, if she'd chosen to protect her life and not have me, that would have been just as okay because she was a human with the right to live. Not all high-risk pregnancies end as luckily as my mother's did. Not all pregnant people have the access to the natal care and financial resources my mother was blessed with. No one should ever be FORCED to go through with something that was a choice for my mother.

I’ve always felt that late term abortions should be viewed as a tragedy for mothers and fathers. Those are almost always wanted babies. Families going through one of the worst decisions of their lives deserve respect and compassion. No one wakes up at 7 months and thinks, well, I’d rather fit in my bikini next month, guess I’ll chuck this fetus out.

It’s insane how much misinformation is being spread, and the shame around abortion. It’s heartbreaking :c

So if abortion is outlawed, are we going to have investigations into every miscarriage? Prove that there is no "foul play"?

I'm Muslim and I am PRO-CHOICE. Honestly, I believe that religion does NOT have a place in medicine and that there shouldn't be Christian, Muslim, Jewish etc doctors. And that's with a period. If I am making a medical decision, I don't want that to be influenced by my religion. In Islam, abortion is permitted up until the 4th month as that is when it's believed the baby has a soul; despite this, there are still a ridiculous amount of Muslim doctors who ignore that and will try to make a woman feel like crap for deciding what is best for her and her family. Should I ever (hopefully not) need an abortion, I don't want my judgement to be skewed by religion. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just plain weird, IMO. In the same way, I think people should mind their own business and worry about their own bodies. I firmly believe that the choices people make are between them and God alone. Anyone else's opinion is null, and no one is required to be told those reasons either.

When I was 15 I dealt with a sexually abusive stalker for about 6 months. The school system I attended did not care, even when I went to admin about what was going on (my abuser was another student). Thankfully I never ended up becoming pregnant from those traumatic filled times but I had multiple long conversations with my best friend during that time about how if I got pregnant from those experiences that I would in fact end my life. I live in an incredibly conservative area of a very conservative state in the U.S. and there is NO WAY I would've been able to access reproductive care to discuss my options (no public transportation, low socioeconomic status, and did not own a car/other modes of transport. My closest Planned Parenthood is approximately 20 or so miles away) THIS is why I became so interested in reproductive health among other things. Some suburban blonde and her polo husband didn't go through shit and do not speak for me. Their voices are of no greater value than mine and they should not be advocating for such (for being anti choice I mean)

What really upset me was I have a friend in America and she had to have an abortion. She is pro life she would never have one willingly but there was an issue with her little one and if she didn’t have one she could of turned septic when the foetus died (it was going to regardless). So she went to a clinic (they aren’t in hospitals there they are like specialised clinics not like here in the uk). She phoned me afterwards and was hysterically crying it wasn’t just because of her situation but because of people stood outside the clinic calling her horrible vile things. Telling her she was basically the worst person in the world for doing what she had no choice in doing. Not only was she grieving the loss she didn’t want to lose she had gone against her beliefs as she had no choice to for health but she also had vile people shouting vile things at her on the way in to do it. I was appalled. How can people be allowed to stand outside there and say awful things? They didn’t know she didn’t have a choice they had no right to call her a murderer call her a sinner etc x

Completely agree with the "I'd rather die than go through pregnancy and raise a child". Absolutely never would I choose to go through it, it's glorified body horror.

As an American I just wanted to make a small correction to the intro. The endgame for some of these politicians (some are playing coy but a Representative from Idaho admitted to it) isn't to make abortion illegal, it's to outlaw contraception as well. "Domestic supply of infants" is so important yet I had to drive around for 45 minutes today looking for baby formula.

As it has been said multiple times: there is no hate like Christian love.

On the adoption point, many people who have been adopted have spoken about how traumatic adoption is and now using adoption as a “gotcha” point is treating babies as a commodity. Worth looking into the impact of adoption on adoptees

My own mother tried to induce a miscarriage when she got pregnant at 19. She was unsuccessful and ended up giving her daughter up for adoption. She is now anti-choice, seemingly unaware of the fact that her own actions would have been criminalized before Roe.

I like the statement 'they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth' they don't care about the quality of life the kid will have, they just care that the child is born.

By comparing it to genocide, they disrespected not only the mothers who go through that, but the victims of genocide. Makes me sick.

What is worse is that the same people who want to ban abortion also want to ban contraceptives. If you want to reduce abortion, you should support contraceptives and sex ed….

I’m a mother of 3 bio and 2 step kids- 5 amazing burritos! Properly caring for and nurturing a child is very hard- even when you want them with all of your heart. Nobody should be forced to become a mother. The world doesn’t need more traumatized unwanted children.

The thing that most pro-birthers don't understand is that most people who have an abortion don't want to be pregnant. It's not necessarily about having a baby, but being pregnant.

Part of me feels like the pro-life movement exists to shame women for having sex. Like, "you were intimate so pay the consequence" more than anything else

The way that they pretend adoption is a neutral option is so disingenuous to me. Giving up a baby is/can be a traumatic thing. I would spend my whole life wondering and feeling horrible.

I know so many people who have lived sad, impoverished lives because of being denied abortions as 14-year olds. I can guarantee that their mental health, financial circumstances, and addiction status would have been better had they not been forced into raising babies when they were only babies. Especially in North America, there is this perception that all a baby needs is love when that is so far from the truth. Children are a massive financial and emotional commitment that lasts for the rest of your life. Whether it's letting someone choose not have a child at all or to only have the number of children they can afford, we have to support the freedom to make the best choice possible for the situation you are in. It's just been so frustrating that the people who join the parties that pretend to want small government and less regulation only think that applies to fucking oil companies. The uterus has become the most highly regulated and politicized organ in the world.

A friend of mine had an abortion a little over a decade ago. In an effort to keep her privacy, let's just say she was not mentally well enough to have a child at that time (she's much better now thankfully but still chooses to be child-free) and was spiraling when she realized she was pregnant, trying to remove it herself. She told me this while I was a pro-lifer. I was brought up in the pro-life crowd, thanks to my parents, and was too sheltered to realize how important the pro-choice movement is. Her story started to change my view, and as the years went on I realized how ridiculous "pro-life" really is. If they really cared about children, they'd do something about the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children in the foster care and adoption systems. I'm only "pro-life" when it comes to the person wanting an abortion: it's their life, they deserve the choice.

I'm, unfortunately, trapped in Oklahoma. They don't care about us, the don't even care about the pregnancies they're forcing, they care about controlling women. I couldn't even get a doctor to listen to me about my ovary causing such horrible fits of pain that I'd lay in bed being able to do nothing for days and weeks at a time. They didn't care, and then I lost my ovary because it was dead inside my body from being suffocated from large tumors. They didn't care when I went back because the other ovary now feels similar to what happened before, and they told me that I needed to "think about my future children." I have begged to have the other one taken out, my quality of life sucks because of my issues with my reproductive system. They. Don't. Care. They just care about controlling our bodies and some theoretical idea that I might one day get pregnant, so I have to suffer. If I somehow managed to get pregnant, it would be excruciating for me. Thing is, I'm most likely not even fertile anyways, so I'm suffering for literally nothing.

If the pro life people were really pro life they would work to make the lives of the children that already exist better.

I won’t be watching, because I had to have an abortion for a very wanted pregnancy with a much loved baby to prevent him from either dying immediately or suffering a prolonged death over a short and painful life at the end of December. I can handle some anti abortion conversations, but based on the snippets I’ve seen of their documentary, I can’t handle one they’re involved in. Thank you for addressing their video and speaking on abortion rights.

I went to a Women's Health Clinic, which most people understand deal in way more than just abortions. There were protesters there, including the obligatory Teen Mom. I decided to stop and chat for a moment... told them I had 3 questions, which I did ask: 1) How many of you have adopted? (Answer: none, except someone's nephew did adopt, to which I noted he wasn't there protesting because he was busy taking care of his family.) 2) How many of you foster? Answer: None 3) How many of you volunteer in orphanages or other homes for children without parents.... Answer: None My final response: So you care about the children right up til the moment they are born - good to know!

Anyone who’s pro forced birth should have to sit through an EMS gynecology unit. If you want to force someone through pregnancy, you should have to know EXACTLY, in graphic, gory detail what you’re forcing them through.

The anti abortion idiots I hate the most, are those who believe sex is a sin and pregnancy is a punishment meant to straighten you out. These people are just sadistic and like to watch others suffer. Yet they can't be the bad guys, so they give it a reason like "but God wants-" and demonize the mother as much as possible. They're one of those types of people who laugh when they argue against abortion. If someone was worried about the baby, they'd be sad, angry, or something other than amused.

I'm genuinely like, borderline phobic of being pregnant. Even hearing about other people being pregnant or being around a pregnant person makes me extremely uncomfortable. I also have unstable moods that hormones can effect that I know pregnancy would make go haywire.... I don't think I could survive being forced to carry one to term.... People pushing this shit just do not care about the health of people and just want to push their agenda...

i lost any respect i had for pro-lifers when a group of them stood right outside my schools ground along the road the buses left on holding signs of dead fetuses. i was 12 years old.

We were meant to have a series of talks on pro-life vs pro-choice, the pro-life speaker came to our school and told about 200 14/15 year old girls that our bodies are not our own and that if we were raped and it resulted in pregnancy we should carry it to term and then maybe consider adoption, then asked who in the room would get an abortion if they found out they were pregnant next week and we all put our hands up (even the 2 heavily pregnant girls in our year, they got pregnant by choice). The pro-choice speaker had to cancel so our head of year stood up and said she wasn’t too worried about us needing that talk as she’d seen how we’d reacted to the speaker the previous week and if we had any questions we could ask her, our form tutors or our science teachers. Looking back I’m amazed at how restrained we were with that speaker, she was horrible, as a year group we’d had a reputation for being difficult, loud and rude, but we just couldn’t be bothered with this woman, once she’d gone we were incredibly vocal about our feelings.

It’s a shame that this is still an issue. I’m currently pregnant and just starting to feel like myself again at 15 weeks. This has been really hard on my body and emotions, but the only thing that makes it worth it is knowing me and my husband will finally have the baby we tried so long for. There’s NO WAY i would go though an entire pregnancy if i didnt plan for it, couldnt afford a baby, or had an unsupportive partner because this has been so much harder than I expected, totally changed my daily routines. I can’t understand why anyone would want to force someone to carry a pregnancy to term, like its not even your body going through it so why do you think you’re entitled to an opinion? I was already Pro-Choice but after getting a taste of how stressful/painful/overwhelming pregnancy can be im even more Pro-Choice

I think even the idea of when does life begin is entirely irrelevant. You CANNOT use ANY persons body for any reason without consent. You can’t even use a dead persons body without consent. Not to save a life, not for any reason. Not if it’s a pin prick of blood or their organs. You cannot use another persons body, not even if they have a uterus. I think it’s important to know how a fetus develops, what it’s awareness is so we can be humane in those decisions. Hopefully as time goes on we will continue to find new alternatives for these situations. But you cannot force someones body to be used by someone else. Not even if it makes your stomach turn. It’s either your body or it’s not.

I have to disagree. The 1 minute of footage of their kids was in there for a very good reason - emotional influence and propaganda. They want you to feel bad about having abortions because look at these beautiful children that the embryo would've grown into if you just let it!

Another tactic I’ve noticed is pro-lifers bring up women who’ve had abortions and regretted it/ were scarred by the experience. Obviously, the emotions of those women are valid and I hope they’ll be at peace one day. But they never delve in to the reason it was regretted. Was the woman forced to get one? Was the method itself traumatic? As was mentioned in the video, positive abortion experiences are never brought up.

I'm one of the women that would never survive a pregnancy because of my blood disorder. I also can't take oral or injectable birth control because of it. My spouse got a vasectomy but I'm still constantly paranoid that I'm going to get pregnant, and I've had two different obgyn's refuse to authorize a hysterectomy because "my future husband might want children". I'm in Canada luckily, but these last few weeks with what's happening in the US have been incredibly stressful, especially because we're seeing the same conservative anti-choice sentiments being echoed by very vocal groups of conservatives here in Canada. I really appreciate videos like these, even though you might get a throng of anti-choice hate in the comments. Thank you for all the work you did for this.

This whole "if my mum had an abortion, i wouldn't be here" argument is completely redundant! If your mum didn't have sex you wouldn't be here. The concept of 'you' isn't even formed until you are born, before that you could just be anyone.

I've never understood people who say, "You had unsafe sex (or any sex at all) and now you have to deal with the consequences". What about the child that's going to be born? What if that child is born into an abusive, impoverished, or threatened home? Why should the child also have to suffer the consequences? By punishing the mother, you are also punishing somebody who had no other choice. That, in my opinion, is a greater act of cruelty than an abortion.

Rachel made a good point about pro choice being the middle ground. On one side you have no abortions under almost any circumstance, sometimes even rape or incest aren't exceptions. Then their are anti natalist who say no more children, abort all, having children is immoral. Also I hate the whole, "well this lady wanted to abort but didn't and is happy," argument. Like for every one of those woman I can show you a woman throwing her baby in the trash, shaking the hell out of it, or mistreating it because she didn't abort. Not to mention who knows how long that happiness will last. Their is not much worse than a parent that resents their child. If you don't want an abortion don't have one. But if others want one they should be given easy and affordable access. Its the bare bloody minimum.

Also, that doctor who talked about the D&E abortion said she had an abortion and now she's pro-life because of what she witnessed in the D&E while in medical school seems to be completely oblivious that she more than likely would have never made it through medical school if she hadn't had an abortion. Yet "what's best for thee is not for me!"

My brother was born incompatible with life back in the 80s, my parents didn’t know he had a congenital heart disorder until after birth but I remember my parents using him in their pro-life arguments. That if they’d known, they’d still have carried him to term, how glad they were that I and my siblings met him and loved him. And I thought that was the only right thing to do in their situation. With my first pregnancy I was terrified my child would also be born with the same disorder and then die alone in a cold hospital surgery like my brother did. I went into my 20 week ultrasound with trepidation, waiting for bad news. I feared I’d have to carry my dying infant for twenty more weeks before I could say hello and in the next moment say goodbye. Her scan didn’t show any anomaly, but, I told myself, my brother’s didn’t either. When she was born there were complications and she was taken directly to the NICU, I thought I wouldn’t see her alive again. My mind played games with me and I was an absolute mess the whole pregnancy. Then when a friend’s sister went through a late term abortion for her own much wanted infant because the baby would suffer, I realized it was a kindness. A kindness to the infant and to the mother. A kindness I could afford to give to myself if I found the need. I’m 100% pro choice now. A mother’s health is important, both her physical and her mental health. I trust women to make their own choices regarding their medical care. I trust myself.

The thing that drives me crazy about these anti-choice wingnuts is you can personally feel that abortion is wrong FOR YOU and still support that, for other people, it is a vital healthcare service. I'm someone who could never personally have an abortion unless it was compromising my health, but I am so very pro-choice because my needs are not the needs of everyone else in world.

I have a question for anyone who may be anti-abortion. What if a 10 year old girl falls pregnant as a result of sexual abuse? Whether or not this particular hypothetical describes most abortions is not the point, the point is the hypothetical is totally realistic. In 2015, it made national headlines when a 10 year old girl in Paraguay fell pregnant as a result of rape perpetrated by her step father. One of the most common arguments by pro-life people is that child bearing is a natural part of being biologically female. For the most part, that is true. However, science teaches us that, when a girl first begins puberty, even though she is technically capable of reproducing, her body is not quite ready to do so. Statistics show that mothers under 15 years of age are five times more likely to die compared to adult women who give birth. I must ask all pro-life people this one question? If a 10 year old girl falls pregnant as a result of rape, should she be forced by law to remain pregnant or should she be allowed to terminate the pregnancy? If you said that she 10 year old sexual assault survivor should be allowed to get an abortion, I have some follow up questions. Should a 25 year old woman, who falls pregnant due to sexual assault, be allowed to abort? If not, then at what age does a female pass the cut off where abortion should no longer be legal? If, however, you believe that the 25 year old, who fell pregnant due to rape, should be allowed an abortion, should a 25 year old, who falls pregnant due to consensual sex, also be allowed an abortion? If you answered no, then A, why is aborting a pregnancy that resulted from consensual sex morally different from aborting a pregnancy that resulted from rape? And B, what if a woman lies about having been raped, so that she can have an abortion? Does she have to prove that she was raped before she can get the abortion? The investigation could turn up inconclusive. The investigation might take so long, that the pregnant woman ends up giving birth, before the investigation is over. There exist people who believe that abortion should be reserved for cases of rape. That is a lot simpler in concept than it is to execute. However, there also exist people who believe that abortion should be illegal, even when the pregnancy results from sexual assault. If you do that you will have children, who are not even old enough to be left home without a babysitter in some states, will be forced to give birth.

American here! The frustrating thing about Roe is that it isn't a law or amendment or anything like that. It's a supreme court ruling - which hypothetically sets legal president for curts in the US to rule in favor of the right to have an abortion. That's it. We voted last week to enshrine the right to an abortion in law but if failed

I’m watching this while nursing my three week old daughter that is very much wanted and planned. I enjoyed being pregnant and I love being a mother and yet I’m now even more vocal about being pro-choice than I’ve ever been. Neither pregnancy nor childbirth are easy, both mentally and physical and being forced to go through this against one’s will is absolutely cruel. Also i was in the very privileged position to live in a country that legally protects you during pregnancy and postpartum in so many ways (full paid maternity leave, getting time off for all doctors appointments during working hours, etc) but so many women don’t even have that.

Society needs to start being honest about how hard pregnancy can be on the body. It can even be deadly and no one should be forced to go through it if they don't want to. I'm 30 weeks into my 2nd (and last) pregnancy. in my first pregnancy I had pregnancy-induced psychosis. in both pregnancies I've thrown up so violently that I've torn my esophagus and thrown up stomach fulls of blood. my back is wrecked from both pregnancies.

Thank you so much for speaking about this so politely and eloquently with informative facts, Rachel!

The idea that I could be forced to birth a child when I am barely able to take care of myself and don't even feel comfortable taking on a pet because I don't feel I could provide for it is terrifying. That child would suffer under my eye. I wouldn't be able to afford them, I'm not in the mental headspace to care for them, I don't even live in a good place for a child to grow up. But NOPE, I could be forced to endure those horrors because some rando who's never met me gets to tell me what to do with my body. Pregnancy scares me... nonetheless birthing and raising the child.

I live in America, and I just turned 24 a few days ago. I had a meeting with my psychiatrist the day before my birthday, really nice guy and all that. However, he started saying that he wanted to wean me off of some of my medications so I could have children. I told him that I didn't want kids and the thought of being pregnant greatly disturbs and distresses me. Again, I want to stress that he is a very good doctor, he has taken care of me for years. However, he basically said I would change my mind or that I'll want kids someday. No, I don't want kids. My self worth shouldn't be dictated to having children. I'm an artist and I just don't see a future where I would be happy with kids. Maybe I'll adopt, maybe I won't. I just know that I don't want to be pregnant and have biological kids, especially due to genetics and the environment right now.

I had an abortion. I was 22 and had just become pregnant after rape. My body had an allergic reaction to my pregnancy. I kept it secret for so long because A) not anyone's business and B) I feared backlash.

Thanks again for continuing to speak out on these issues when I'm sure you receive some nasty comments/backlash for it. Also doing the research and scripting for this video was probably mentally exhausting as well. I appreciate you!

A fetal heartbeat is super fast too. (110-160 bpm) Any parent who went to an OBGYN appointment can tell you that. They chose to use an adult heartbeat as propaganda.

Watching this just hours after finding out that roe v wade got overturned. I live in a state with very scary trigger laws in place. I'm terrified. As soon as I found out I called my husband to schedule his vasectomy sooner than he was planning because I now have no rights the second I become pregnant. I could be investigated and prosecuted for a miscarriage if it's deemed to be my fault. I'm not letting that happen. I, a fully grown adult woman with a job and a house and responsibilities, have less rights than firearms.

Here’s what’s most crushing for me about this debate: pro-lifers don’t care about the people who want abortions. They literally don’t care about how traumatic it is for a rape victim to have to bring their rapist’s pregnancy to term. They don’t care if there’s a possibility that the pregnancy can hurt or kill the one carrying it. They don’t care if the person carrying the fetus is too young or in a bad financial situation. Nothing that we say will ever convince them because pro-choice arguments are compassionate towards pregnant people, and pro-lifers have no compassion for pregnant people.

My Tokophobia is so bad I'd rather be dead than pregnant. I would hurt myself if I wasn't able to be free from that horror and possibly die. These kind of people horrify me.

Along with the continuous need for legal abortion options, there should be propper sex education and guidance with contraception in every school. I think less shame and secretiveness around the subject would prevent more people from needing abortions.

"pro-love", huh...awfully loving of the probirth movement to also overwhelmingly support cutting benefits, welfare, and school funding for sex ed (and in general). nothing gives a precious little baby the fuzzy wuzzies like denying its mother parental leave and food stamps 🥰

People do not realise how dangerous pregnancy can be or how it can ruin a woman’s body. My mum nearly died giving birth to me. She had pre-eclampsia which turned into full-blown eclampsia. Bottom line: she was lucky to survive. She WANTED to have me but the toil being pregnant with me took on her body. Though she never outright told me, it was those complications through pregnancy that also resulted in her kidney problems; one stopped working and had to be ‘deactivated’ while the other was working a minimum capacity, enough where she wouldn’t require dialysis. It’s only now I’m an adult I realised just how much risk she put herself through and the lasting effect pregnancy had on her body. I lost her after I just turned 22. I love my mother more than anything even though she’s no longer with me - but I can’t bear the thought that any woman risk putting her body through this process unless it’s 100% what she wants.

For a bit more context, Roe v. Wade was a Supreme Court Case that ruled that women have the right to an abortion under the fourth amendment, aka the right to privacy. Roe wasn't the woman's real name in the case, it was to keep her anonymous. Trying to overturn the Roe v. Wade verdict is not only concerning in terms of abortion, but it may concern women's autonomy in general. I don't mean to scare anyone, as it probably would not be a good idea for the Supreme Court to try to overturn other verdicts, and Congress and the Executive Branch do have ways to check the Court. The Supreme Court just makes verdicts, it has no way of putting them into action without the President or Congress.

I appreciate your use of inclusive language in this video! consuming content about reproductive rights can be somewhat fraught as a member of the trans community and it's so nice to see someone taking that into consideration while educating others about the issue.

I am currently 14 weeks pregnant with my first. I'm 1000000% pro-choice. I can say first hand that pregnancy is not at all easy. It's very hard emotionally and physically. It's uncomfortable and miserable. I can completely understand why someone would want to abort. This is very hard and exhausting. If you aren't ready for this, you shouldn't have to go through it

6:35 an additional inaccuracy with the use of that heartbeat sound effect is that it's clearly an adult heartbeat - a fetus' heart will beat at 120-160 bpm, so anyone who has heart fetal heart tones will quickly recognize the heartbeat sound effect as much too slow

The talk about Cosmic Skeptic is saddening. I used to like his content years ago and thought he was likely to be an up and coming prodigy of the skeptic community but it really felt like right around when he went vegan he became very judgy and unlikable and his channel content completely changed. I never saw your video with him and had no idea he was anti-choice. What a disappointment. That said though, incredibly informative video here Rachel, I didn't even know a lot of these facts so I'm glad to have been educated on the subject.

Prolife really is just forced pregnancy. But the truth isn't pretty so they have to lie to get people to side with them Btw idk if it was you or the original uploaders who obscured the faces of the children in the video, but if it was you, thank you, protect their privacy online

If I become pregnant, my already unhealthy body couldn’t take it. I’m underweight, I’m aneamic, I’m mentally ill, I experience chronic pain, etc. the fact that pro-forced birth people wouldn’t care about that scares me. They would let me suffer just for something I don’t want and something they don’t want to keep. I’m financially unstable, giving birth would leave me with a ruined body and ruined mental health… it’s awful that they wouldn’t care about that. “Choose both” that’s bullshit

Watching this as someone who lives in Texas was very shocking. The fack that people have access to free and safe abortion is so crazy to me and I wish we had that. Sometimes I forget that government can be reasonable.

Thank you SO much for another great informative video. I appreciate your input and the work you do a lot and I'm so happy I can watch everything you create. I had an abortion as I was 18 in the 10th/11th week. I, without a doubt, would not be here today if I had to have to go through that pregnancy. I'm very lucky that I had no problems with getting the abortion approved and the procedure done. One of the few good things in germany. I'm absolutely terrified of pregnancy. The whole thing is just nightmare fuel for me. I dislike kids with a passion and always did since I was little. (I'm turning 33 this year) My stance of a childfree life has never changed and WILL never change. I understand why people want children, I do. So, why can't these people understand us, who do NOT want children? It's mindboggling how a lot of of them feel so entitled to tell us what's best for us and how useless a life without children will be. How selfish of us, to not overpopulate the earth more and create more misery! How dare we!

Thank you so much for this clear and compassionate video. What's clear to me is that these are sheltered and privileged people who hardly, if ever, encounter and acknowledge lives that are lived differently from their own. Because their beliefs have never been challenged, they feel completely justified ignoring the validity of billions of experiences that have nothing to do with their own. This causes them to feel it fair to disallow schools to teach safer sex practices to their students because they feel that sex before marriage *should* not happen in the first place. Typically, in America, those who are socially conservative err on the side of fiscal conservatism, as well. They frequently vote into power those who wish to cut funding to social safety programs which support disadvantaged citizens. Or politicians who will fight to prevent birth control being covered by insurance because their taxes should not be used to promote "promiscuity." To have your stated position be that life is precious ergo abortions are bad then there has to be some amount of consistency to that position. If life is precious then every one of them should feel comfortable supporting welfare, SNAP, WIC, and food stamps with their taxes. If abortions are bad then they should 10000% support the prevention of unwanted pregnancies by educating everyone on how to use condoms, the available varieties of birth control, and what enthusiastic consent is and is not. Absent such consistency, their point is entirely clear: those with a uterus deserve to be punished for having sex outside of our narrow scope of cultural beliefs. Which is not love in the slightest.

I'm non binary and AFAB, which means I can get pregnant. I had a pregnancy scare about a month ago and broke down crying in front of my mother when she asked if I was pregnant after being nauseous every day for a whole week. I took 2 pregnancy tests and it turns out I wasn't pregnant (thank fUCK), it was just my anxiety manifesting the symptoms. Point being we can't financially support a baby and it would also cause me severe mental anguish, along with severe dysphoria to the point that I don't even know what I would do. It's not just about "oh I'm a little scared of having a baby uwu" it's life and death, even when the pregnancy itself isn't physically dangerous to the pregnant person.

Just wanted to add that misoprostol isn’t only used for abortions and miscarriage. I recently got an iud inserted and I was given misoprostol to dilate my cervix. They are trying to ban these drugs in certain states bc of abortions

I'm a pre-transition transman. The very idea of babies and pregnancy makes me physically sick. The idea that my body has the ability to host a parasite that I never *ever* want makes me want to crawl out of my skin and escape. Periods also remind me of this awful fact. Thankfully I'm ace, so I don't have to worry about potential pregnancies, but hell, if I wasn't... I would react the same way as you Rachel, if I became pregnant and couldn't have a way out, I would kill myself without a second thought. No potential future is worth it if my body had to go through something not only so phsyically painful, but mentally traumatising.

Also like it’s hard to overstate the effect that the war on Roe v. Wade is having on the American public right now. Because states can and do effectively make abortion illegal by just closing down all but one clinic and then regulating it to make it extremely ineffective, this current legal battle seems to be about more than just abortion (ex: the senate in Louisiana is attempting to ban IUDs, Texas banned medicines that are used to treat miscarriages, and in states like Arkansas and Alabama women have been arrested for having miscarriages). A lot of ppl are deleting period tracking apps because they don’t want the government to have access to information about their cycles which could potentially be used against them. Even if this is a far fetched idea right now, the point is we are currently in a state of paranoia. The fact that they live in America, surely saw all this happening and STILL thought this was a good video to post right now is unbelievable.

My mother was done with family planning after she had my brother. She didn't want a second kid. But years later she got pregnant with me and only kept me because my father and grandparents were super happy about it. And I'd like to say it shows. My mother is really cold towards me, sometimes verbally abusive. Well shit, I'd rather go back in time and have her abort me, than sit here feeling depressed.

I appreciate you covering the kids' faces. The LeBrants treat their kids horribly for views. They pull "pranks" on their kids, including convincing their kids that they would get rid of their pets, and making a whole video making fun of their daughter for her browsing history. Their kids are visibly upset in these videos, and the parents just keep shoving cameras in the kids' faces laughing at them. Family channels are messed up. The kids' lives are put on display for millions of strangers, they didn't consent to it, and so much that happens on these family channels are manufactured for views. The kids are going to grow up not knowing what is a real, genuine experience with their parents and what is a cheap play for clickbait. Of course people like the LeBrants aren't going to have a very firm grasp of consent and body autonomy.

Thank you so much for doing a thorough job of this, Rachel, abortion is such a huge topic to cover. If there is one thing to say about it, though, I think it's that when Roe v. Wade passed in 1973 there was no reaction here in the U.S. It wasn't until years later, around the time Reagan was elected in 1980, that republicans found out that it was a very effective political tool, that Roe v. Wade started being used as propaganda so much, and that's what is still going on here.

There was a semi recent study trying to determine when exactly is death. They measured the electric impulses of the heart after flatline. It was still firing. It just wasn’t enough to restart the heart, and often even if it did, it would only beat for some ten seconds before stoping again. Basically they proved that it was appropriate to call death after five minutes of flatline, even if there were still electric signals. That reminds me of fetal development. The cells are firing but there aren’t even heart chambers until week 9

Every child deserves a parent but not every parent deserves a child

The fact that anti-abortion laws are being passed in some places here in the US is disgusting. Both my pregnancies were terrible (very bad morning sickness until the very end both times, as well as hip displacement that still affects me now) and I wouldn't want to force that on any woman if they didn't want it. Nevermind the weight gain and other after effects. Choice matters. It's their body.

I've said it many times before. I've received a heart transplant. The thing they call out (the "heartbeat" at 6 weeks that is merely a cardiac cell electrical impulse) is something I've seen replicated on independent cells in a petri dish. Are we going to say that those cells are now deserving of life in perpetuity? If a dead person can't be forced to give up their organs against their will, why is a live person being forced to go through a 9 month physically, emotionally and mentally difficult and often hazardous to the mother condition?

Abortion saves lives. Plain and simple. I cannot believe some of the arguments they made in that 'documentary', how narrow-minded do you have to be to believe in the denial of a HUMAN RIGHT? God, I've never been so infuriated. I appreciate your constant reminder that what is being aborted is simply cells, not a human being. And your knowledge is genuinely incredible and it's so commendable that you're using it to educate others like this.

Nobody told them banning abortion won't ever make people stop getting abortion

Rachel thank you so much for making this video. People claim “pro-life” but don’t give a flying fuck about animals, the people carrying the fetus or the millions of children in the foster care system! Like it pisses me off bc these people only care about controlling women and being “morally right” I was born to a teen mom (15!!!) and my bringing up was fucking hell. And I won’t go into detail but being raise by a literal kid, can make you messed up when you’re older. Im very strong on my stance of not wanting kids and you don’t know how frustrating it is being Hispanic and kept getting told by family that I “need” to have kids, like no. My body, my choice. I’ve told my partner if I were to get pregnant I’d be depressed and definitely get an abortion. I can’t and won’t go through an unwanted pregnancy.