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Micah Fahar
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Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
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CA - California
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My Pro-Choice Perspective
What being a Pro-Choice Therapist means to me:
In some ways, being a "pro-choice therapist" could be considered a natural consequence of following the ethical guidelines of our profession. It is not a clinician's place to tell a client what they "should" or "should not" do with their lives, and that includes what they choose to do with their bodies.
However, that is just one piece of the puzzle. To me, a pro-choice therapist does more than just passively accept a client's choices; rather, they are willing and able to actively support a client through the process and help to unpack and dispel any shame, guilt, anxiety, etc. that the client may experience.
Why I think bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom are important:
Losing control over what happens to your body is traumatizing and can cause an immense amount of pain and suffering across many or all aspects of a person's life. From pregnancy to birth and beyond, having and raising a child is an incredibly complex, resource-intensive, and sometimes life-threatening process, and forcing someone to carry a pregnancy to term who does not want (or is not in the position) to do so can cause significant harm to both the person forced to give birth and the baby born under such circumstances. To support forced birth would be to support government-sponsored trauma, and that goes completely against both my personal and professional ethics.
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