• squaresinger
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    1 month ago

    “at what point is it a human being”

    That is a much more valid question than “at what point does life begin”, and that’s pretty much the same point as “at what point is it a being covered by the legal protections of human rights?”

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I felt the same when I wrote it. I agree with what someone else said though, these movements are often not about life but about control over women.

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        1 month ago

        Yeah, that’s the really infuriating part. While some people might argue in good faith on the pro-life side, a lot of them don’t.

        A common scenario:

        • A woman who is not ready, equipped and/or willing to have a child gets pregnant and wants to abort.
        • She ends up not doing it (due to laws and/or social pressure) and has the kid.
        • Turns out, she’s not ready, equipped and/or willing to raise the child, and the child ends up neglected in some form.
        • Society turns on the woman telling her she’s a bad mother.

        If it was actually an honest pro-life movement, the pro-lifing wouldn’t end with the birth of the child. Instead, then the movement should step in and be pro-free-school-lunch, pro-free-education, pro-free-child-care and so on.

        But no, it’s all like “You gave birth to this child, so screw you, it’s your own fault, your own responsibility.”