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In reply to the discussion: Stephen King buries Susan Collins: 'Women in Texas must pay the price for her gullibility' [View all]Hekate
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Both the Nazis & Soviets made abortion easy, but they made contraceptives hard to obtain, which meant that at any time the regime wanted more citizens all they had to do was bar access to abortion.
The Ceausescu regime in Romania outlawed both contraception and abortion, and regularly checked on women to see why they were not pregnant. The horrors of the orphanages ensued, populated with psychologically traumatized children whose parents couldnt afford them and didnt want them, so dumped them as soon as they were born.
The Chinese government decided the solution to overpopulation was the one child policy, backed up with draconian forced abortions. China now has millions of men who will never get a chance to marry, as families favored sons and selected for them by ultrasound if they could.
Women are moral agents, with functioning brains. Keep the Goddamned state out of it, and likewise religion, and we ourselves will choose appropriately.
* Just so you know, many religions indeed many branches of Christianity itself, are fine with abortion being legal. So dont tell me religious people are all against legalized abortions, because that is not true. Women who dont want an abortion are 100% free to not have one, regardless of their religious beliefs or lack thereof.