Catra and Adora are sent on a mission by Queen Glimmer, when their space pod gets struck by an asteroid and flung off course. They crash into the alien planet Zorra, not knowing what lies on its surface, but hoping they'll be able to survive it, tog...
Hey y'all! Sorry I haven't updated for a few weeks! I had AP tests, but now that they're over, I should be updating more frequently. The next chapter will be out soon! I know this isn't a usual update, but I think it is important to say. I have to use my platforms to fight for equality, and I want to take a moment to write about womens', or anyone with XX chromosomes, right to their own body. I feel the need to talk about this, even though it does not have much to do with my story, because the right to our own bodies is one of the most basic human rights, but it is being stripped away from us as we speak, as more controlling laws are going into effect around the country and globe.
I'm talking about abortion. I'm talking about our right to chose. Some people say that a fetus is, "Not your body, not your choice." But a fetus is in your body, using your body, affecting your body, attached to your body. The fact that a fetus is not an organ does not change the fact that forcing anyone to remain pregnant, takes away their control over their own self.
Only you get to decide what happens to your body. Only you get to make that choice. That means that even to save a life, you don't have to do anything. Make any moral claims you want, but you have the legal right to yourself. Or at least, you should.
When I die, I am going to be an organ donor. But I do not have to. Even if it will save 20 lives, no one can make me do anything with my body that I don't want to do. Even when I'm a corpse. If I have a child, and my kid needs a blood transfusion, I would give them my blood. But I do not have to. If I cause a car accident and the person affected will die without my kidney. I should give it to them. But I do not have to. I am thankful to have never needed an abortion, but so many other girls, women, and pregnant people are not so lucky, some even needing abortions as a result of sexual abuse.
Ultimately, the legal right to abortion does not have to do with whether or not someone who has the time, money, and privilege to mull over the issue deems it moral. Call a fetus a baby, mourn its death, but do not take away our legal right. This is not about whether abortion is right or wrong, it's about if it's legal. Cheating is wrong, being sexist is wrong, dissing She-Ra is wrong (not actually but us fans sure feel like it is), but it's not illegal.
I get poison oak a lot, and while I know this is nothing like being pregnant, I have the same point to make. I am extremely allergic to the plant, and every time I get it, I have to go to urgent care and get medicine within only a couple of hours. It's that bad. My skin burns, my eyes swell more than halfway shut, and boils leak orange pus. But the pain isn't the worst part of it. The worst part of poison oak is losing control over my body. It's not being able to do anything about it beyond what I've already done. And I try to prevent getting it, but just like failed contraception, shit still happens. I can't do much to secure my safety against poison oak, but I can do somthing about my legal rights. I demand full authority over my body. Including my uterus.
In She-Ra season five, Catra gets chipped. I don't believe this is intended to be any sort of allegory for the abortion conversation, but there's a few things I'm going to point out. When Catra is chipped, control over her body is taken away, in a quite physical sense. Her hair is forcefully cut, and she is not given autonomy over herself, being literally puppeted by Horde Prime. But banning abortion does much the same in our world. Banning abortion gives politicians who don't give a shit about us the power to puppet our bodies and force us to use them in ways we don't consent to.
She-Ra, again and again, pushes the theme of having a choice. Adora's whole arc is choosing her destiny. Adora even says, "Don't I get a say in what happens to me? Don't I get a choice?" As fans of this story, let's bring this message into our world and fight for our right to chose.
We have autonomy over ourselves. We are worth more than what we can give to other people. We deserve a choice too. Let's make some noise.
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