Regarding the abortion problems in Poland: I am pro-abortion as an automatic legal right up to *insert reasonable standard here*, but...
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Which incentivices abortion and deincentivices using your common sense - aka birth control - to prevent a lot of these cases.
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And before you bring up that birth control is not perfect, consider this: my hometown has a vast chlamydia epidemic. Condoms? Who needs them
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Not to mention well-known dangers to the woman in the abortion process, and ethical problems. It should be a fundamental right. But...
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I also have a right to legal representation. Does this mean I should be adviced to not worry about legal problems? Probably not.
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The right to abortion is important - no, essential. A culture of abortion, that normalizes it... not so good. Not essential. Very, very bad.
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A culture of abortion erodes social support for women who choose to carry to term, irrespective of their situation and moral choices.
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Instead of being a fundamental right, it becomes almost like an obligation. Extremist advocates and normalizers went too far.
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Provided that a country is not like Poland and engaging in medieval regressivism, the debate should not be about abortion.
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It should be about the thoroughly shitty positions we voluntarily put women in, in association with childbirth. From lacking support...
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To moralizing about their life choices... to forcing them never to let the kids play alone if they don't want abduction by idiots or cops.
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To grandstanding about mores - whether conservative or so-called feminist - instead of giving them fair, unbiased information...
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If you want a rallying cry for women it should be "stop telling us what to do and start helping out with this shit instead, assholes."
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