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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Answer On Abortion Leaves 'Pro-Life' Senator Speechless [View all]Novara
(5,822 posts)It plays right into the right's hands. They want to eliminate safe, legal abortions so women are punished for making their own decisions about their own bodies. They want to keep women down. Keeping them pregnant and/or shaming them for trying to take control of their own lives keeps patriarchy alive. Letting them die from an unsafe abortion only means they get what they deserve for being uppity.
Abortion needs to be safe, legal, and readily available. It does not mean that good birth control doesn't also need to be safe, reliable, and readily available but even so, sometimes birth control fails. Sometimes women don't use it perfectly. In some abusive relationships a woman can't use birth control because she is fully under the control of her partner. Women are raped - even spousal rape.
Many of you seem to be forgetting that we live in the real world. Many of the same people who want to eliminate abortion also want to make birth control rare. Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
Women cannot afford to settle for compromises. Saying abortion needs to be rare plays into their narrative that it's a bad thing. We've had enough of that shit.