How can a society reconcile charging someone who kills a pregnant woman with double homicide, and yet permit a woman to have an abortion? The answer is very simple, and also a key to understanding why abortion opponents are incorrect. Women have a choice as to what happens to parts of their own body. A fetus, dependent upon them, attached to their body, is a part of them. This is how the process is morally acceptable, though even if it were morally questionable, banning abortion would do very little to stop it, and likely just end with a large quantity of dead pregnant women who attempted to perform abortions on themselves. It is easy for the primarily religious opponents of women’s rights to justify this, as what they really wish to punish is promiscuity.
The same people who pretend that their reason for being against abortion is the poor little dead babies are the same people who are unwilling to support measures that might decrease the number of abortions while protecting the right. The same people who pretend STDs and pregnancy motivate them are the same who support abstinence-only programs that propagate both. The fear of sex, especially WOMEN choosing to do so, is what motivates people guided by silly and unsupportable religious principles. Sex, in the 21st century, can be almost consequence-free with our current knowledge and contraceptive devices. No matter how much progress frightens people, we cannot allow their terror to deny women basic rights over their own bodies.
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