You and bilby are on the same list Rhea
Do you mean the list of people who act in a pro-life way by making actual voluntary bodily donations? Yeah, I’m on that list. I am on the lists for bone marrow donation, organ donation and I donate blood as often as possible since I have an extremely rare type of blood needed for saving preemies.
When I talk about what it means to be Pro-LIFE, I walk the walk, voluntarily. And I do not condone, ever, legislating non-scientific religious restrictions that harm life, such as trying to ban abortions so that women who miscarry are at higher risk of death.
The ridiculous and treacherous argument that anyone wants “abortion on demand up to 40 weeks” serves only to harm human life. It’s a made-up, fabricated lie to try to get people to act against human life in favor of empty religious moralizing. The number of cases where, if you heard the details, you’d actually want to deny the medical care is 1 in a billion, while the number of cases where the stupid thoughtless, uninformed blanket hyperbole will kill women and never save a baby is happening every day.
If you and your fellow forced-birthers really wanted to reduce abortions, you could eliminate 50% of them in less than 12 weeks (and even more in the next 12 weeks) by supporting free and easily accessed long acting reversible birth control and comprehensive sexuality education.
But the reality of your position is that every time people who call themselves “pro-life” are given the chance to reduce abortions by reducing unwanted pregnancies, you
turn it down and fight against it. You are READY to have more ongoing abortions, for
decades, so that you don’t have condone sex outside of procreation.
The difference between what pro-lifers say, and what they do… is what they do.
And what they do is prolong the instances of millions and millions of abortions, because stopping them requires caring more about stopping abortions than stopping fornication. And y’all just cannot bring yourselves to put anything higher on your list than making sex as risky as possible in an effort to stop the sex.
You don’t care about abortions. You only care about controlling people’s sex activity. Your actions show it.
88% of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. So if you all turned your attention, efforts, money and support to providing long acting reversible birth control and the education and access to use it effectively, you could STOP the use of abortions as birth control by July. This has been shown in action in 3 US cities/regions that providing free long acting reversible birth control, even from just one or two clinics in an area, results in an enormous decrease in abortions (they had over 40% in each of 3 cities).
But.
You.
Won’t.
Because controlling women’s sex lives is and has always been the Prime Directive. And stopping abortions will never be higher on your list. So you will never ever give out birth control and actually stop abortions.
Religious conservatives have had over 100 years to establish themselves as the people who spend all of their energy in preventing pregnancy, and preventing the desire to end pregnancy by making pregnancy as risk-free as possible through prenatal care, making parenthood as accessible as possible through support of food, housing and daycare, and supporting single parents.
But.
You have squandered the last 100 years in keeping pregnancy and parenthood as risky as you possibly can. You have not established yourselves as the people to prevent pregnancies and prevent the negative impact of pregnancies. With predictable results. The Catholic church has even had worldwide programs to undermine confidence in condoms, resulting not only in unwanted pregnancies that lead to abortions, but also to increased disease. That’s what y’all have built. More abortions, more deaths.
Your prime directive is clear. And always has been. If stopping abortions means accepting that people have sex outside of religious boundaries, you will accept the abortions rather than accept the sex. The laws you fight for prove it.
It’s pathetic and barbaric. And it is transparent AF. Your actions have always spoken. Anti-Fornication is the real platform, not anti-abortion.
88% reduction in abortions. 12 weeks. (With a full-court press) The answer has always been in front of you. We see it. You pretend you don’t see it, in fact you fight us on it, because it challenges your actual Prime Directive of punishing fornication.
I challenge you: if you could reduce abortions by 30% in 3 months, but it meant handing out condoms and making commercials to promote their use - would you do that? Then, if you could reduce those abortions by 80% by handing out hormonal implants, would you do that? EIGHTY PERCENT reduction in abortions, by summer. Would you?
I would.
