Do you publicly support, and push your governments to attain, and argue whenever the topic of reducing abortions come up, that the best way to reduce abortions right now is to provide free-to-user, easily accessible, long acting reversible birth control?
Yes.
So can we ban abortion now?
Aaahh. You have just demonstrated that you missed the entire point.
Once you lobby for and achieve free-to-user, easily accessible, long acting reversible birth control, you don’t NEED to ban abortions, because no one gets one unless their life, health or fertility is at risk.
Lobbying for free-to-user, easily accessible, long acting reversible birth control means that you are on the same side as the majority of people, and if you can overcome the fundy fascists who want to withhold that, then the abortions are reduced, nearly immediately, to 1/10 of what they were. And that 1/10 is used by people who need the abortions to save their life or health. And who would want to prevent those people from access?
That’s the thing! we’d all agree with you, and stand side by side to fight together for the same thing!
But.. then you demonstrated that you don’t have the passion for actually stopping abortions in a way that would put you on the same side, because you gave it lip-service then demanded to ban abortions, which takes a very very long time, during which lots of abortions still happen.
“So can we ban abortion now?”
Well, obviously not, since free-to-user, easily accessible, long acting reversible birth control does not exist yet. It is still being blocked by a fanatical minority. One can’t just say one agrees, one has to do everything one can to make it happen. Otherwise one is dissembling, no?
You would stop more abortions faster - and we both know this - by fighting them and not me. By fighting those who oppose free-to-user, easily accessible, long acting reversible birth control. They still need to be fought. They are still blocking free-to-user, easily accessible, long acting reversible birth control.
“So can we ban abortion now?”
Why would you want to, at that point? It would only kill women with wanted pregnancies suffering from major problems. Wouldn’t that be actually monstrous?