Pants-of-dog wrote:If it is not about punishing the pregnant person for their choices, why is it important to make an exception for when they did not choose?
Not if they are deadbeats.
And this removal of rights will create more deadbeats.
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Conservatives are not punishing women for getting pregnant l They are punishing women for being sexually active.
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@wat0n
Arizona’s high rate of maternal mortality shows a blatant disregard for women’s health. It is comparable to an openly sexist society like Chile.
Banning abortion is correlated with higher maternal mortality rates, so according to the science, this removal of abortion rights will probably end up with higher maternal mortality in those states that ban it.
The rape exception is hypocritical as I have said. It is an attempt at an act of compassion but is steeped in racism as a matter of fact. Please note before you play this broken record yet again, that my state has no rape exception.
Maternal mortality rates are irrelevant. If there is a problem with prenatal care then the state, which is so all fired interested in the unborn in the first place, should fix the care problem. Abortion has nothing to do with that.
And, for the record, I do not agree with your premise.
AND AGAIN. Two points. The abortion ban is not unique to "conservatives". There are a great many so-called liberals and moderates who dislike abortion extremely. More than a third of democrats identify as pro life. The overwhelming majority of Americans want some limits on abortion. Indeed under Roe V. Wade, states were allowed and even encouraged to establish limits on abortion.
Secondly it is not about punishing promiscuity. If it was, abortion would be permitted for married women and banned for single ones. You logic is flawed. Does the abortion ban inconvenience women who do not want to have a child? Yes. That is no more "punishment" for women than the draft is "punishment" for men.
Now POD. If you want to go off-topic and assert that this change in the law is indicative of the fact that women do not have nor is there any move to give them equal rights to men, I quite agree. If there such an intention we would have quotas of fathers getting custody to ensure that the responsibility for raising children did not disproportionately fall on women. Oh yea. And we would pass the Equal Rights Amendment.