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One of the most horrifying arguments made by pro-abortion progressives is that the vast majority of women who want an abortion will get an abortion one way or another. This simply isn’t true, but it’s a scare-tactic narrative that is often repeated. At least one progressive thought-leader acknowledges it as true and urges other progressives to change their talking point.
Diana Greene Foster doesn’t just want pro-abortion activists to stop denying criminalizing abortion or making it less accessible will increase birth. She wants them to embrace the notion to demonstrate how unwanted pregnancies are forced to go full term and that’s a bad thing.
The argument centers around quality of life. Women who are forced to have unwanted pregnancies must contend with more challenges than they would have had they been granted the abortion they wanted. This is true, as is the rest of the article, though I take the opposite perspective on the news as it’s revealed:
Stop Saying That Making Abortion Illegal Won’t Stop People From Having Them
Research in the United States and abroad shows that when women are denied legal abortions, many carry their unwanted pregnancies to term and give birth. In the University of California San Francisco study I lead of women who tried to get abortions but were turned away from facilities across the country (the Turnaway Study), more than two-thirds of women who were denied abortions because they were too late in pregnancy carried their unwanted pregnancies to term. Scientists in other countries where abortion is legal—Bangladesh, Nepal, South Africa, and Tunisia—have found that among women who are denied legal abortion, about half get an abortion somewhere else and half carry the unwanted pregnancy to term.
My Take
Foster takes great care in presenting the appropriate narrative for pro-choice activists to use. It’s much more honest than toting around coat hangers and pretending like abortions happen whether a doctor does it or not.
This is one of the few pro-abortion articles I agree with in large part. The big difference is I view it as a positive that fewer abortions happen when access to legal abortions are constrained. Fewer pre-born babies are murdered when restrictions are in place. Foster views it as a negative and while I disagree, I can at least respect her beliefs because they’re based on truths rather than the common lies repeated by pro-choicers.
Progressives don’t want people to know restricting abortion access reduces the number of abortions because it fits the Pro-Life argument in favor of more restrictions. Kudos to Foster for demanding the truth from people on her side of the abortion fence.
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