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CloudsOntheBrain t1_jat03h7 wrote

Reply to comment by Mundane-Ad-3142 in Billboards advise on how to get abortion pills in US states where procedure is banned | Abortion by BigClitMcphee

Well, I asked my aunt, who is religious and staunchly anti-abortion (despite having gotten one herself in her younger years), if she felt that women with unwanted pregnancies should be "punished" by being refused abortions.

She said yes. It's a consequence for having sex. If you didn't want to be pregnant, you shouldn't have had sex (or been raped, apparently). So there are people out there who really do feel this way, even if all they get out of it is a sense of "justice" for punishing a perceived sin.

In my aunt's defense, she also believes the unborn fetus is the same as a child, and I think she feels guilt over aborting her own pregnancy in the past. So her beliefs are at least nuanced in that way. But I couldn't get her to understand that saddling a child with the weight of being unwanted, and a punishment to their parents of all things, is unbelievably cruel. And she didn't care to hear about how high the abuse rate is in homes with unwanted children, or in foster homes. Or how overburdened the adoption system is.

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Standard_Gauge t1_jat2e96 wrote

> if she felt that women with unwanted pregnancies should be "punished" by being refused abortions.

> She said yes. It's a consequence for having sex. If you didn't want to be pregnant, you shouldn't have had sex.

Your aunt, like many anti-choice zealots, seems to believe that the only women who seek abortions are "loose" single women who have casual sex with multiple men. I wish someone would bonk these people over the head with the FACT that a very large percentage of women seeking pregnancy termination are in long term monogamous relationships, many in fact married, and most have children at home. Do these people really believe that married couples should stop having sex after the two (or whatever) children that they can afford are born???

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Blighted_Smile t1_jat9q9q wrote

Your aunt wants to deprive women of a right that she had and used. Her guilt does not excuse that. She wants women punished for the exact thing she did. True "the only moral abortion is my abortion." Sorry, but at least in this she's an awful person.

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CloudsOntheBrain t1_jata8bh wrote

Oh, she's for sure a hypocrite, and I agree entirely. I just think there's some cognitive dissonance between what she thinks she's advocating for and the reality of her stance.

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nevertoomuchthought t1_jat18ft wrote

I don't know your aunt but I'd bet dollars to donuts she's an unfuckable hag who nobody worth a damn would ever want to impregnate intentionally.

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Bovolt t1_jaujccc wrote

Psh. And they say only conservatives hate women!

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