Abortion isn’t just about ending a pregnancy
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So many pro-choice people say abortion is justified because of bodily rights. This comment is a great example: “Nobody has rights to my body except for me. If it wants to survive so bad, it can do so on its own.” But the interesting thing is that abortion is not just about ending a pregnancy or preventing an embryo or fetus from using a woman’s body. It is more specifically about making sure the embryo or fetus is dead.
The authors really said the quiet part out loud in this article when they talked about how artificial wombs would be a threat to abortion rights: “The reality is that some women who choose abortion do so not only to end the pregnancy—preserving bodily autonomy—but also to avoid becoming a biological mother. Ectogenesis,” which is artificial wombs, “would still make her a biological mother against her will, and using it as an alternative to traditional abortion would therefore violate her reproductive autonomy.”
We’re already familiar with this thought process now. That’s why in abortions of viable fetuses, they induce fetal demise first to make sure that the fetus is not born alive and then accidentally survives, because abortion is not just about ending a pregnancy, it’s about killing a fetus.
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