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That abortion is stimatized, or that it's stigmatized more than being gay/bi?

I think it is. People seem more willing to support gay marriage than abortion rights. At least, younger people do. Being gay or bi is typically accepted, or at least tolerated. But abortion is seen as murder. Anyone who's had one is seen as a murderer. Being gay or bi is seen as just weird or a minor sin or something.

If I may be so frank...that's complete bullshit. That is NOT the case even in the most liberal of towns. I live in one such town and the leader of one of the high school GSAs was nearly run off the road last year by the hockey team, because he is gay. People in our town use gay slurs all the time. It's not just considered "weird or a minor sin", and it is NOT typically accepted. Please, please, please do some more reading up on the subject.

There's no denying that there is an immense stigma attached to abortion, but to say that being gay/bi carries no stigma of the same magnitude is dead wrong. And really, I don't think the two are even comparable. Most people won't know if you've had an abortion, unless you or someone else tells them. People will know if you're gay/bi/pan if you show affection to your partner in public.

Just because they accept gay marriage doesn't mean they accept homosexuality or gay people. There's a big difference.

Also, I never said that abortion was more accepted than being gay. I said that saying that being gay/bi has very few social consequences is bullshit.

And, my whole point was that "everywhere is different". But you can't deny that, throughout the country, there is still a huge stigma attached to being gay, as is one attached to getting an abortion. But the two issues are VERY different, and hardly comparable.

I get it, kinda... cause here, neither is really stigmatized. There's gay bars here, and they're considered cool places for straight people to go to when the really good drag show comes in, and choice is basically good, too, with free condoms all OVER the place (if anyone in the guild needs condoms, let me know... dunno how good the quality is, but I can get free condoms easy here)

...So are we doing this on the 23rd like their website says or the 24 like the thread title says?

I think both have an equal amount of s**t.

Women who've had abortions and gay people can hide it, but people can still talk s**t about them and it'll affect them.

Women get called sinners and are going against their purpose or nature, just like gay people supposedly are.

Homosexuals are beat up, hit, hurt, and treated like crap. Women who have abortions are yelled at, labeled whores, treated like crap, and given a look like they're inferior.

Homosexuals are seen as people who make a choice to defy their "true natures"

Women who get abortions are denying their purpose and true "hidden" desire to have children.

Both get lots of fleck.

that seriously pisses me off how they used the LGBT day of silence idea for abortion. that was OUR idea 1st,they need to come up with an orginal idea. as for me,i'll add the blue arm band on to my wardrobe for the day. i am going to tape a coathanger to the side of my messenger bag with a sign that says "no thanks back alley,i choose roe" (or something like that). i need to find out if a coat hanger is considered a weapon 1st..cause if it is i can exactly bring it to school. if i cant bring it to school then I'll cut out a big paper one and make it stable with cardboard.