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As a socially progressive slut/sex worker/moral nihilist, I am very pro abortion. I grew up among anti-abortion acitivsts - for example, my mom once spent time in jail for blocking abortion clinic doors. I think those people are wrong, but I also understand their views. 1/

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May 3, 2022

Imagine the Opposing Side is tryin to pass a law to make it legal to kill the elderly, or very sick people. You'd probably feel horrified, and any arguments they made to justify it would seem absurd and selfish. This is really, actually how many of them feel about fetuses. 2/

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And that... really sucks, cause what do you do about it? It's not an easy argument, and it's probably why the abortion issue has become a decisive issue in a lot of areas; conservative people are slowly changing in many ways, but it seems like they're stable re: abortion.

8:21 AM · May 3, 2022

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This is why I tweeted that states should have more control; I sort of want all the anti-abortion people to go shush off over in a state or two somewhere and not spend their activism at those who don't believe fetuses are people.

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This is about where I get to as well. Though, I'd be more accepting of the stance if anywhere near as much attention and care was given to the children after they were born. Too many children live in poverty.

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Have a Petri dish in 1 hand, and a baby in the other. Drop both. See which one they save. Continue to do this with the various stages of growth in pregnancy until it’s recognized at which point there’s 2 humans. Obviously I’m being sarcastically facetious…but ya know 😶

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interesting that this is only a thing in america. support for legality of abortion has consistently risen in europe since its legalization

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This is complicated, neither of simple answers sits with me well 100%. I have 2 kids and think that bringing new live to this world is one of the most important and beautiful things. I'm also pro abortion because body autonomy is the most basic concept that we cannot erode.

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Abortion has become a decisive issue in many political arenas precisely because it was recognized that it had the power to turn people into single-issue voters, and it has been carefully cultivated to do just that.

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As a Catholic I think it's something like manslaughter. As an American I tolerate it and won't fight it or try to overturn Roe V. Wade. As a pragmatist I think the Abortion argument is the wrong angle of attack and we need to find a way to motivate safer sex and contraception.

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I think what you do is you come to an agreement that in an ideal world there would be zero abortions and then you work together on addressing the root causes that lead to abortions, rather than passing oppressive laws that restrict abortions.

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Many other places in the world have come to some kind of compromise though; access to abortion before about 20 weeks, limited exceptions thereafter. It's not a perennially contentious issue the way it is in the US!

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