Are the pro-lifers consistent about it? No. Is their "saving the lives of innocents thing" at the expense of women's agency over their lives? Yes.
Doesn't mean they aren't still trying to stop what is in their eyes a legalized massacre, my dudes.
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The claim that this is really about controlling women's bodies is horseshit. It's a side effect, not the main goal. It's just super easy to take unflattering side effects and point at it and scream loudly THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED ALL ALONG, YOU VILLAINS
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Would be like if you campaigned for women's equal working rights in a sexist country, and then all the sexists came out of the woodwork to insist that your true goal all along was to separate women from their children, you anti-family monster.
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My mom once got pregnant with a fetus with half a brain and some important organs missing. Doctors told her it was definitely going to die, she should abort. Nope - she carried the baby to term, gave birth, and he died in her arms. Here's me and my brother in this photo
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My mom was once arrested for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic (years later, I protested planned parenthood alongside her). If you walked up to my mom and told her she only cared about controlling women's bodies, that would have been such an insult.
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To be clear: I think (even really late) abortions should be legal. I think it's better for society in almost every way.
But the pro-choice rhetoric sucks absolute balls, come fucking on guys you are better than this. You don't have to demonize the enemy to win.
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Stop saying it's about controlling women's bodies, it isn't. Acknowledge that the opponent thinks they're doing good, but are misled, and then continue the debate with actual real facts, not lazy mischaracterizations.
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My opinion is pretty controversial for even the pro-abortion crowd.
I don't think the 'is it human' is the right question for 'should we kill it.' I think 'does it hurt anybody to kill it' is more the right question, which means I'm kindaok with killing up till memory formation.
I am not taking any stance here, but I am curious if you think it is ok to torture a person or animal if they won't remember it afterwards? Independently of that question, is it ok to kill someone instantly/painlessly if no-one remembers them? (I find these questions puzzling.)
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I'm not ok with torture, I'm ok with the killing but only given certain conditions. "Creating a norm where people are afraid of being killed if nobody remembers them" creates harm, so I'm not down with that.
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