it's about restricting access to abortion, with an eye toward eliminating it altogether
The most frustrating thing is that no measure will "eliminate" abortion, just make it an underground activity. And since most people have no memory of pre-Roe days (strangely including some people who were around then), the perspective that this is possible is going to be hard to dispel. So as a method of achieving the impossible, sexist men get to set women's rights back a decade or two.
We have abortions because people want them and/or feel compelled to have them. Period. (Aside from occasional medical necessity.) And the self-righteous actually help perpetuate the problem, for as long as they consider pregnancies to be "mistakes" or "sins," then there will be a desire to eliminate the mistake or negate the sin.
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Date: 2011-02-01 08:32 pm (UTC)The most frustrating thing is that no measure will "eliminate" abortion, just make it an underground activity. And since most people have no memory of pre-Roe days (strangely including some people who were around then), the perspective that this is possible is going to be hard to dispel. So as a method of achieving the impossible, sexist men get to set women's rights back a decade or two.
We have abortions because people want them and/or feel compelled to have them. Period. (Aside from occasional medical necessity.) And the self-righteous actually help perpetuate the problem, for as long as they consider pregnancies to be "mistakes" or "sins," then there will be a desire to eliminate the mistake or negate the sin.