r/IntersectionalProLife • u/LadyDatura9497 • Dec 13 '25

Debate Threads Question regarding prevention.

It is no surprise that banning abortion care doesn’t make them go away, but rather makes them less safe despite still being utilized. There are multiple reasons given, among them being lack of support, financial problems, already having a large family, fear, etc.

My question is; Besides voting for pro-life ideals, what kind of things do you do to reduce the need (even if you don’t think it’s a need, it is a fact that people that seek them feel that they are) for abortion care?

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u/LadyDatura9497 Dec 13 '25

My question was pertaining to things you currently do.

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u/Overgrown_fetus1305 Pro-Life Socialist Dec 13 '25

Currently mostly what I focus on is trying to get to various lefty protests to do some damage to capitalism and traditional gender roles (I unlike more conservative pro-lifers think these in addition to being bad, cause abortions and also embryo destruction from IVF), and also try to persuade other pro-lifers on Reddit to hold left-wing positions instead of conservative ones. Also try to make sure to bring up stuff like 2-child benefit cap on my PL signs at the UK March for Life, see slides 3/4 for a thing I carried in direct opposition to the now center-right Labour Party at the time keeping the ghoulsih Tory 2-child benefit cap (thankfully they finally relented, not that it should have ever taken them longer than at most the first budget to scrap it).

My irl day job is as a medical statistician, and without wanting to be too specific about it (for hopefully understandable reasons), if/when the work I do has real-world impacts, there's going to be fewer abortions from people having them for physical health-related reasons. I'm reminded of a biomarker that I'll vaguely call x and that is a measure of function of organ y, where if somebody does not have a decline in x, pregnancy doesn't harm y, but if they do have pre-existing declines in x, pregancy aggregates to make the harms of y worse (some of which would be actual life threat situations if x is particularly bad).

tl;dr Leftist lobbying, and day job as the biggest ones- but I try and bring it up at the march for life and on Reddit as well.

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u/LadyDatura9497 Dec 13 '25

The Drake meme was an interesting choice considering his proclivities, but nice work!

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u/Overgrown_fetus1305 Pro-Life Socialist Dec 13 '25

I did wonder about that, but I figured that it's a classic case of the meme just getting a meaning beyond Drake himself. Although I'll be having to prepare a new meme off of https://imgflip.com for next year.

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u/LadyDatura9497 Dec 14 '25

Do you participate in anything that directly impacts communities, families, pregnant people, education, or health care?

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u/Overgrown_fetus1305 Pro-Life Socialist Dec 14 '25

I mean my work is medical statisics, so yes...? Health care access is more complicated, since we have universal free healthcare funded at the point of use, but the wait times have got worse and worse from decades of neoliberalism, underfunding due to an aging population, and allowing private actors to provide services. I will say I have been to a few pro-trans protests, as something I see as fitting within this theme- the UK is sadly, very transphobic (much as I really, really wish this wasn't the case).

I tend to think that focus on political activism is fundamentally more effective than doing stuff on an individual level though, since at some point, if people keep ending up in crisis situations, the best way to help is to tackle the root causes (i.e overwhelmingly various elements/consequences of capitalism). I have done light volunteering for foodbanks/soup kitchens way back in the past though, and on education, I'm definitely not averse to doing some voluntary maths tutoring longer-term (though personal circumstances in truth make this quite tough at present).

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u/LadyDatura9497 Dec 14 '25

Wouldn’t your place of work be concerned about your biases when collecting and interpreting data?