Banning abortions would make women slaves

Blue Donkey said:

I am still waiting for anti-choicers to prove consensual sexual intercourse is immoral and the only reason heterosexual people do it is to procreate.

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I think you'll be waiting a long time for that to happen. Obviously, because there is no proof of either assertion.

countryboy said:

Getting pregnant and having a baby can hardly be considered "punishment", unless it's a rape.

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It's punishment when a woman who never wanted pregnancy or a baby to begin with is forced to stay pregnant and give birth because abortion has been outlawed. For women who never want children, being forced to have a baby they never wanted is punishment, whether you like that outlook or not.

Ignatius said:

Equating pregnancy with slavery is one diagnostic criteria for being brain dead.

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Hardly. Equating forced continuation of pregnancy with slavery is 100% accurate, for women who never want pregnancy or children. Pregnancy can and does pose serious risks, both to a woman's health and life and to her financial well-being, as being pregnant can cost a woman her present job and the ability to obtain future employment.

Also, if a woman is single and not wealthy, being forced to have a baby she never wanted and can't afford, because abortion has been banned, could be a one-way ticket into lifetime poverty, and to the woman being pretty much a slave to whomever she is financially dependent on. So it isn't "being brain dead" to equate unwanted pregnancy with slavery at all.

Blue Donkey said:

Before calling a comparison asinine, you have to consider what it is like for the woman to be forced to do something against her will. Are you totally aware of how she is psychologically affected by that?

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I'm sure many prolife guys just don't care if she's psychologically affected or not. Especially when the woman "chose to have sex," which some of them seem to believe is some kind of "crime."

But whether they like or not, women do have -- and should always keep -- the right to control our own reproductive processes, by either using birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy or by using abortion if for any reason the BC fails. Most of simply prefer not to be financially dependent slaves, to state, to church, or to anyone else.