Frelga wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:56 pm
There is just no end to the ways criminalizing abortion causes harm.
Criminalizing abortion opens up the door for criminalizing a miscarriage:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544
Criminalizing abortion hampers doctors from treating pregnancy complications including miscarriages:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-sho ... scarriages
Criminalizing abortions can directly lead to pregnant women's deaths by restricting treatment for ectopic pregnancies
Criminalizing abortion, as has been already noted, can prevent non-abortive life-saving health care for pregnant women who are denied because "it may harm the fetus"
Criminalizing abortion, as has been already noted, can prevent life-saving health care for non-pregnant women because "they may become pregnant"
On the non-directly-medical side
Criminalizing abortion puts pregnant women at increased risk of violence from partners they cannot escape
Criminalizing abortion puts pregnant women at increased risk of violence from partners who want them to have abortions
Criminalizing abortion lets rapists choose their baby's mother (this was a particular harrowing insight to come across)
Criminalizing abortion deeply impacts abused
children who become pregnant and are forced to carry a pregnancy to term
Criminalizing abortion gives women less rights over their body than a corpse has
Criminalizing abortion reduces women to being little more than incubators rather than full human persons in their own right
Most importantly is that criminalizing abortion does not actually prevent abortion - and yet the anti-abortion crowd is largely also against all the other, better methods for preventing unwanted pregnancies that actually do, then, lower abortion rates. The anti-abortion crowd is largely against birth control (which was also targeted in the RvW reversal decision), sex education, access to medical care, access to after-birth care and support, higher wages, access to better and higher education...