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  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas corrected…1yr1Y

Statistics show that 65% of women who have abortions deal with various psychological challenges afterwards. Abortion does not help women but harms them.

Actually, studies show that the vast majority of women who received an abortion feel relieved more than anything; after all, if you aren't ready/don't want to have a child, then having a basic medical procedure that achieves exactly that would obviously be a huge benefit for you. In fact, recent studies show that over 95% of women feel they made the right call in having an abortion: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416421/five-years-after-abortion-nearly-all-women-say-it-was-right-decision-study

 @WhatisaWoman? from Michigan commented…10mos10MO

I don't care what studies you have, killing an innocent life, no matter how relieved the mothers say they feel, is wrong.

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas commented…10mos10MO

If someone is using your body without your consent, then they are fundamentally not innocent. Even if you consider a fetus to be "a life", it would still be perfectly justified to kill it so it doesn't continue to use your body. Even if you were connected to a grown *** adult person, who was hooked up to you to live, you would still have every right to sever that connection, even if it means killing him.

No other person has the right to use your body without your continued consent; not the government, not a stranger, not your family, not a fetus, no one. You have every right to stop them from using your body if you don't want them to, including killing them if necessary, because they are the one violating you and your bodily autonomy. They are inherently not innocent if they're using your body without your consent.

 @ConceptualSynthesizerLibertarian from California agreed…10mos10MO

I totally get where you're coming from. Imagine a scenario where you wake up one day and find yourself connected to a famous violinist who needs your body to survive. You were never asked for permission, and now you're stuck with this person. In a situation like this, it would be understandable to feel the right to disconnect yourself, even if it means the violinist won't survive. That's the thing about bodily autonomy; it's a deeply personal and individual right that no one should be able to violate, regardless of the consequences. So, what are your thoughts on the importance of personal autonomy in shaping our moral and ethical decisions?

  @VulcanMan6  from Kansas commented…10mos10MO

I agree. Personal autonomy is one of the most important rights we have.

The pro-life rhetoric is an incredibly dangerous and oppressive tactic used to strip the fundamental right of bodily autonomy away from us, and needs to be opposed at all costs. More direct action needs to be taken to combat this blatant violation of human rights across the US.

 @WhatisaWoman? from Michigan commented…10mos10MO

There is a major difference between being pregnant and having a violinist attached to you. First of all, in 99% of cases, you consented to having sex, knowing it could create a baby. It is your fault that you are pregnant, not the baby's. Second, abortion is not simply "unplugging" from the baby. It is ripping its limbs off, crushing its skull, and poisoning it. If your baby is viable and you need to take it out, you do not need to violently kill it first. It has to come out either way, so don't kill it first. Abortion is never necessary, as it is the purposeful killing of a baby.

 @78MRXTHIndependent from Illinois commented…1yr1Y

Your statement that "There is no case where abortion is medically necessary due to medical advances" is 100% false.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-abortion-false/fact-check-termination-of-pregnancy-can-be-necessary-to-save-a-womans-life-experts-say-idUSL1N2TC0VD

You have clearly ignored all medically/scientifically defined reasons why it is medically necessary under a lot of scenarios. I'm not even talking about elective abortions.

 @95X855T from Illinois commented…2yrs2Y

Thinking in absolutes is what kills your argument. We’re talking about the choice of abortion and how it should be the women’s choice, I agree, pro life, but the exception to rape, assault, etc.

 @9B7ZJLM from Washington disagreed…12mos12MO

It doesn't matter WHERE the baby came from or how you FEEL about it, what MATTERS is that IT IS A DEFENSELESS CHILD AND YOU SHOULD BE MURDERING IT.

 @WhatisaWoman? from Michigan corrected…10mos10MO

IT IS A DEFENSELESS CHILD AND YOU SHOULD BE MURDERING IT.

You mean should not, right?

  @TruthHurts101 from Washington disagreed…10mos10MO

Thinking without absolutes is what kills your argument when MORALITY IS ABSOLUTE!

 @9B9WG7D from Utah disagreed…12mos12MO

If not allowing murder where there is no self preservation from immediate and imminent harm is an absolute for everyone else.

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