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In reply to the discussion: Abortion actually is becoming RARE. Jailing women for "suspicious miscarriages" is trending. Coincidence? [View all]MH1
(17,595 posts)To be clear - not by the "DUers on average" that you refer to. I mean the dishonesty of the self-righteous a*holes that want to police the bodies and moral choices of the powerless, when they know full well that anyone with money and power operates outside their rules anyway - including themselves, if their own little innocent Mary should happen to find herself in need of those choices.
On the other hand, the desire for abortion to be "rare" in my observation, really stems from the desire for the availability of contraceptive options to be ubiquitous rather than as constrained as it used to be. If a) people have easy access to contraception; b) the education to use it, and c) are not coerced into sex; then the need for abortion SHOULD be "rare". Unless someone is an ultra-conservative freak, what could possibly be wrong with that approach?
The problem is that there is more than one way for abortion to become "rare" and the self-righteous a*holes I mentioned above are not looking for the same kind of "rare" as the pro-choice folks who use that term. I think pro-choicers unwisely ignored the negative framing that the construct "safe, legal, and rare" implied, but I don't think for one second any of the pro-choice movement wanted it to become "rare" by being unavailable. What is the point of "safe and legal" then? Actually "safe" doesn't even coexist with "unavailable as a regulated medical practice". So you can fault them for making a mistake and being naive, but not for intention.