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In reply to the discussion: Abortion actually is becoming RARE. Jailing women for "suspicious miscarriages" is trending. Coincidence? [View all]nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)everything you said...especially, "In the real world what's becoming rare is access to safe and legal abortion."
there's a lot of truth to the fact that older folks excuse themselves from this issue b/c it no longer affects them. "oh, it's up to the younger folks now," they think.
also, the paternalism encoded in the "rare" language is sickening. it's no one's business how frequent or how rare a medical procedure is for any particular person.
likewise, it's delusional to think that advancing better birth control and sex-ed is going to make abortion rare, when we ACTUALLY live in a world where birth control is more difficult to access and sex-ed is increasingly a corporate-Christian abstinence-only purity sermon.
people need to pull their heads out of the sand and realize what's really going on in the real world.