ranma-official
asked:
I am "this is bad, but criminal abortions are so much worse" pro-choice, not "FUCK YEAH! DEAD FETII FOR EVERYONE!" pro-choice. Framing pro-life as men forcing their opinions onto women sounds obviously wrong to me. What's your estimate on gender composition in pro-life?
thathopeyetlives
answered:

I don’t know. I don’t think it’s hugely disparate.


I… Can’t really confidently accept that. Like, I agree that just criminalizing abortion in a country accustomed to having it legal, and not doing anything else, would be spectacularly ineffective and destructive.

But we have to actually end it. I’m not willing to lie to myself.

mitigatedchaos

Speaking of being honest: actually ending it would require standardized physical or genetic modifications to humans to change how reproduction works such that pregnancy is purely voluntary and disconnected from sex. I can’t see any other way that doesn’t result in illegal abortions being performed which does not require police state theocracy or even greater violations.

That, of course, leaves out the entire discussion on how “ensoulment” works, and ways in which ensouled matter must necessarily behave differently from unensouled matter if souls aren’t just glorified backup devices.