We also don't charge people who physically assault pregnant people with child abuse, nor do we make fathers of foetuses pay child support as soon as a pregnancy is confirmed. Because embryos and foetuses are not people.
It takes much, much longer than a mere 5 days for complex structures like the cardiovascular and nervous systems to develop. Citation thoroughly needed in this claim.
I am not a person with a uterus so my opinion on this is not particularly important. But it is entirely reasonable for a pregnant person to make a decision both for themselves and their child that the termination of the pregnancy would be for the best. It's not as simple as giving birth to the child then giving it up for adoption. (1) giving birth is a life-threatening medical procedure and in many instances is incredibly traumatising (2) adoption centres around the world are already overwhelmed with how many children they have to care for and re-home, adding more children to that puts an already direly struggling service under even more pressure and puts people in danger (3) Even if a child is not aborted, the world they are being brought into is one of immense pain, suffering, war and turmoil. Edgy as this post might sound, the world is not a particularly nice place to live right now and I completely understand if a prospective parent wants to save their child from ever having to experience the horrors of the modern world.
Overall, people who are pro-forced birth seem to miss three key things
(1) Abortion is a medical issue. Even people who want the child need abortions - for example, in ectopic pregnancies where the embryo is implanted in a fallopian tube rather than the uterine walls - to save their life. That kind of life-saving care is now likely to be criminalised in many parts of the US because the GOP is plugging its ears and refusing to listen to people with uteruses and the medical professions. And people will die excruciatingly painful deaths because of that.
(2) The pro-forced birth movement in the United States is based on racism. Republicans have been quite open and vocal about their plans to ban abortion, because when you look at the figures most people who get abortions are white - and what happens if you ban the abortion of predominantly white children? You get more white babies being born, which Republicans hope will counteract the demographic shifts in America away from a white majority. Any other means of influencing the population to be more white are either illegal, or would be political suicide. I am sure that most pro-forced birth people are not aware of this, but that is the true nature of that movement. Pro-forced birth is based in racism & misogyny.
(3) A lot of pregnant people are pregnant because it was forced upon them, most commonly due to rape. Victims of rape who become pregnant absolutely should not be forced to carry the child of their rapist, and if someone doesn't agree then I am stunned they could possibly claim to be acting on moral or ethical grounds.
Overall, abortion isn't the government's business, nor is it the business of crusty old cis het white men in positions of power who seem so insistent on forcing their interpretation of a mythical sky wizard's gossip diary onto others.
1: I'm no expert, but in the US isn't it easier for you to have children? like, the death rate per childbirth is minuscule
2: Well, misogyny aside, what's wrong with having more whites than blacks??
3: I totally agree with this, abortion should only be done in cases of rape or when the mother's life is at risk.
Most of the time these grumpy straight cis white men are the ones who move a country
Why am I arguing about something I'm not even involved in? it's not my country 😅
Ambaskow and Kluyatia
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1. Yes, but the abortion bans in the US are likely going to also ban life-saving abortions.
2. The original person never said anything about white majority being a bad thing, they were saying that the people who wanted to ban abortion wanted more white babies. As he said, white people are more likely to have abortions. If you ban abortions, more white babies will be born. It's a way of passively increasing the white population. Working to actively increase the population of one specific race is not good
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