O you youths, Western youths

“It’s incredibly sad to come back to my country. I’ve just been in Ireland, where people are fighting desperately—fighting—for women to have the right to choose if they want to have an abortion or not. I come back here and I say ‘we’ve worked for thousands of years to have some kind of independence and you see it slipping through your hands.’

Because the truth is: this is not about children. And when you strip away all the layers and you get to the seed, this is not about children. If it were, these people would go to the sewers in Columbia, they’d go to AIDS wards. There’s millions of babies—they’re thrown out like trash on the streets, like cabbage. Nobody cares about the children once they’re on the planet; they don’t care. They walk around with guns and blow each other up. They have no food, they have nothing. Nobody cares about that. This is not about children.

This about having control over a woman’s sexuality. And some women don’t want to claim that power because they feel ashamed, they feel guilty, they’re torn—love and lust. Christianity has nothing—absolutely nothing to do with that. Nothing. And it saddens me because these people—the anti-choice people could be doing so much for the children that are on the planet. This is not about the children.”

—Tori Amos (via pacify-eris)

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