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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At le pub...
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I admit that it's tough for me to engage with the pedantic moral debates about abortion, because of the absolute inevitability of abortions. They happen. They're going to happen. They've been happening since humans became sentient, and will continue long after the US devolves into a regressive Christian hellhole. Attempts to regulate them, while occasionally coming from a good-faith belief in one's own moral compass, only seem to lead down the same dystopian path of other excessive "moral" overreach like eugenics or forced sterilizations. People die, get sick, and societies get dark and rotted.
It has been mentioned quite a few times in here, but I keep thinking about it: rich people everywhere in the states (or simply well-off people) will continue to have access to safe abortions. There will be almost zero change for them or their health choices. Literally thousands of men and women in the anti-abortion camp will privately avail themselves of a safe form of this type of healthcare while publically denouncing it and preventing others from safely accessing it. Even if it were banned the world-over, this would be true.
Is it just apathy that allows so many to live in such hypocrisy? The lives of disadvantaged people - mostly women - are going to be made markedly and horrifyingly worse by this decision. There will be thousands of preventable and senseless deaths, but there won't be fewer abortions.
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