BREAKING: Roe v. Wade might be overruled or severely weakened by SCOTUS

[UncleSam]

Fundamentally the problem is that most American conservatives want to punish people (and especially women) for the crime of having sex outside of marriage. The issue is really that Christianity teaches that sex is evil / wrong unless it is for the explicit purpose of procreation.

If we were able to convince Christians that this is purely a delusion most likely invented by old men who had had little to no female attention throughout their lives, we’d be most of the way there in terms of dealing with this issue. Suddenly teaching safe sex in schools, promoting contraception, and providing reliable medical counseling services to young women would make a lot of the problem go away on its’ own.

Obviously we will still always need women to be able to get an abortion, but to quote Bill Clinton, the hope would be that it would be ‘safe, legal, and rare’. I’d actually support a ban on abortion past 18 or 20 weeks if I were confident women wouldn’t get intimidated to keep the pregnancy up until that point due to having a total lack of institutional support or just fundamental human rights.

Part of the problem is also that the rights of a ‘man’s child’ supercede the rights of women in the minds of many conservative Christians. We need to push hard on the point that they are not and that thinking so is incredibly misogynistic. Just because a woman has sex with a man and that act results in a pregnancy does not give the man any claim to control over her body. None. Nor does having sex resulting in pregnancy give a fetus OR a child (regardless of how you define it) rights that supercede the mother’s. With that being said, I’d still support a ban past some threshold of weeks since at that point, assuming freedom of the mother up to that point to decide for herself, I’d argue that the mother waived her right to total dominion over her body for the sake of the fetus’ right to life.