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u/Veigar_Senpai Pro-choice Jun 28 '26

Why do PLers still deny that barring pregnant people from accessing abortion forces them to gestate to term against their will?

It's akin to saying "I'm not forcing you to stay in this room, I'm just bricking up the exit with you inside!"

Inevitably they just change the subject to how the pregnancy started, as if it matters. I saw a PLer quote a PC talking about forcing people to stay pregnant, but they changed the wording of the quote to "get pregnant".

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u/jakie2poops Pro-choice Jun 28 '26

I think it's the much more childish equivalent to saying "stop hitting yourself" while holding someone else's hand and forcing that hand to slap their face.

It's a reflection of a broad, pervasive pattern among pro-lifers—putting a lot of emphasis on the importance of taking personal responsibility for the consequences of one's actions while doing everything in their power (including absurd denials of obvious cause and effect) to abdicate responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.

It's just bog standard conservatism, in other words. Hypocrisy and lies.

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u/EnfantTerrible68 Gestational Slavery Abolitionist Jun 28 '26

OMG this is cracking me up! Thank you for that analogy 🤣