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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow is a state enforced pregnancy (Texas) any different from a state enforced abortion (China)?
In either case the woman's body become a ward of the state.
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How is a state enforced pregnancy (Texas) any different from a state enforced abortion (China)? (Original Post)
efhmc
Aug 2013
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niyad
(113,052 posts)1. absolutely no difference, except location.
efhmc
(14,723 posts)3. Why can't we call the loss of the rights over our bodies what it really is: forced
birth.
niyad
(113,052 posts)4. pro-forced birth woman-haters
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)2. Yup I agree!
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)5. It isn't.
If the state can force you to carry to term, the state can force you not to. It is really that simple.
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efhmc
(14,723 posts)6. But in one case, someone (the woman) is financially and morally responsible
for another human being for 18 years. She must do this with little or no help from the state which forced her to give birth.