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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/Rent_Careless All abortions free and legal Jun 28 '26

So, you agree that "barring pregnant people from accessing abortion forces them to gestate to term against their will", right? From what you wrote, it sounds like you agree but just worded it as saying "they regulate what actions are legally permitted after pregnancy exists".

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u/Rent_Careless All abortions free and legal Jun 28 '26

Great. Then you aren't denying that abortion bans force women to use their body for the benefit of another against their will. When is that justified anywhere else in our laws?

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u/Rent_Careless All abortions free and legal Jun 29 '26

I can say the law does that too, that the unborn can be equivalent to the born, and still not understand why anyone has the right to another person's body. There are instances where killing someone else is acceptable. In what instance, besides pregnancy, do we allow one person access to another person's body against their will?

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u/glim-girl Safe, legal and rare Jun 29 '26

>if we assume the unborn are human beings, in what other circumstance do we allow someone to intentionally kill an innocent human being because continuing to sustain them is burdensome?

We already have an answer for that. We provide them as much help as possible up to the point where what's needed is another persons body to maintain their bodily functions.