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This is the shit I keep trying to tell people. i have a whole huge story about my family's experience with needing abortion. There's literally no real live anti-abortion human I have ever talked to that has heard our story and said "Yeah, you still shouldn't have been able to do it. If your twins died because you couldn't abort that triplet that had basically no brain left from a massive stroke you only discovered at 20 weeks then that was God's Will." Every single one of them thinks that our situation was one of the "permissible" ones, but that there's still this massive problem of floozies using it as birth control and people aborting 8 month fetuses that needs to be controlled.
I keep having to tell them that A) nobody gets 8 months into a pregnancy and just flippantly decides they don't want it anymore, something catastrophic has happened, and B) there's no way you can ban it for those so-called "irresponsible women" without also de facto banning it for people like us. Because that hypothetical party girl you're imagining getting her 10th abortion this year? Waiting a week for the Morality Panel to check if she eligible is a minor inconvenience, but it would have killed my twins.
My grandmother is against abortion. But when I told her a friend of my sister was having one because the baby had a rare condition where they weren't going to live anyway, she seemed fine with it in that situation
Yeah, they're never actually against abortion. Most of them are usually totally okay with situations like the baby is going to suffer needlessly and die at most a couple hours after being born, or the Mom will literally die carrying this baby to term, or any number of the times abortion is not just an option, but the best course of treatment to save a life.
They've just got it in their heads that 99% of them are "loose" women who "can't keep their legs closed" and are using abortion to "avoid the consequences of their actions" and don't understand that there's literally no way to ban it for them, without also creating a de facto ban for time sensitive medical situations like my wife's or that friend of your sister.
Also, there are literally birth control pills that are common and ubiquitous. There are IUDs. If they really want a medical procedure, you can have your tubes tied.
There is a pill you can take the day after.
Even if it is a "floozy", what the fuck makes you think abortion is the birth control of choice? Who do they think is out there wanting to have as many abortions as possible?
It's just so incredibly dumb.
Some Christians are against birth control too. They think sex should solely be for procreation, which is also one of their arguments against homosexuality
There's a propaganda film where a woman at an abortion clinic meets God and he talks her out of it. There is a background character in the film who is implied to be a regular at the abortion clinic and treats abortion like something she just does every month like getting a haircut. Conservatives think there are really a lot of people like that
I think I remember hearing about that one, yeah. It's utterly deranged the lengths they've gotta go to in order to demonize this.
I truly can't believe how many I've made balk at their stance by saying something to the effect of "Yeah I feel you, I don't really like it getting used as emergency birth control either. But there's no way to stop that from happening at a legislative level without also making it a de facto ban for situations like the one my wife was in," and walking them through what hospitals would do, or have done in the case of those women in Texas was it that were dying of sepsis after their ban went into effect even though it supposedly had exceptions for "saving the life of the mother" in there? I might be thinking of a different state.