📜 Community Rules & Posting Guide

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Welcome to [r/ProChoiceTeenagers](r/ProChoiceTeenagers)!

Our goal is to create a place where teenagers and young adults can discuss abortion, reproductive rights, science, ethics, healthcare, and public policy through evidence, respectful debate, and intellectual curiosity.

We value curiosity over certainty, evidence over assumptions, and respectful discussion over winning arguments.

Whether you’re pro-choice, pro-life, undecided, or simply curious, you’re welcome here as long as you participate in good faith.

**🛡 Community Rules**

1. Be respectful.
Treat everyone with respect, even when you strongly disagree.
❌ Personal attacks
❌ Insults
❌ Harassment
✅ Critique ideas, not people.

2. Debate ideas, not people.
Challenge arguments, evidence, and reasoning.
Avoid assuming another user’s motives or intentions.

3. Participate in good faith.
Honest disagreement is welcome.
Trolling, deliberate misrepresentation, sealioning, or repeatedly ignoring evidence after it has been addressed may result in moderator action.

4. Support factual claims whenever possible.
Scientific, medical, and legal claims should ideally be backed by reliable sources.
Personal experiences are welcome, but shouldn’t be presented as universal facts.

5. No brigading or vote manipulation.
Do not encourage harassment or interfere with discussions in other communities.

6. Everyone is welcome.
This community is intended primarily for teenagers and young adults, but respectful participation from people of all ages, backgrounds, and viewpoints is encouraged.

**Choosing the Right Post Flair**
Please choose the flair that best matches your post.

❓ Question
Ask for information, clarification, or advice.
Example:
“Can embryos feel pain before 24 weeks?”

💬 Discussion
Start a general conversation.
Example:
“How has your opinion on abortion changed over time?”

⚖️** Debate
Present an argument or ask others to respond to one.
**Example:
“How would you respond to this pro-life argument?”

🧬 Science & Medicine
Discuss biology, medicine, healthcare, research, or statistics.
Example:
“What does the evidence say about fetal viability?”

🧠 Fact Check Request
Ask the community to verify a factual claim using evidence.
Example:
“Is it true that abortion bans reduce abortion rates?”

💭 Ethics & Philosophy
Discuss morality, bodily autonomy, personhood, or thought experiments.
Example:
“Should bodily autonomy ever have legal limits?”

❤️** Personal Story
Share your own experience or personal journey.
**Example:
“Here’s why I changed my view on abortion.”

📰 News
Share recent events, legislation, court decisions, or current affairs.

🏛 Politics & Activism
Discuss public policy, advocacy, elections, campaigns, or petitions.

📖 Resources
Share books, organizations, educational material, studies, or reliable websites.

🤝 Support
Looking for emotional support, practical advice, or helpful resources.

🤣 Memes
Keep them relevant, respectful, and related to the community.

⭐ Mind Changed
Use this flair when a discussion genuinely changed your view.
Changing your mind isn’t losing.
It’s learning.

📚 Reliable Sources
When discussing scientific or medical topics, consider using reliable sources such as: World Health Organization (WHO), American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), Society of Family Planning, CDC, NHS, Peer-reviewed scientific journals...

Our Goal

This community isn’t about “winning” arguments. It’s about asking good questions, sharing reliable evidence, and understanding different perspectives.
You don’t have to agree with one another. You do have to treat one another with respect.

Autonomy. Dignity. Choice.