You’re assuming the goal of the anti-abortion laws is to reduce the number of abortions. The actual goal is to increase birth rates to increase demand for jobs, goods, and services.
Eh. I don’t think it’s that deep for most people and politicians that oppose reproductive rights. I think that’s likely true for some oligarchs that have aligned themselves with the right, and I think that’s partially true for people that subscribe to great replacement conspiracy theories. But I think for most people, it’s pretty much what they say it is: a moral issue.
FWIW, I was opposed to reproductive rights up into my very early 20s; I truly believed that it was an issue of personal responsibility, and I thought that both men and women needed to suck it up and ‘do the right thing’ if there was an unintended pregnancy. It took a pretty significant personal event–the loss of my religious faith–for me to see how fundamentally shitty that view was.
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to say that’s why everyone who supports abortion bans secretly believes. I just think that’s why it’s being pushed politically, as well as to get support from those who oppose abortion for whatever reason.
We could learn from this in the US, but we won’t.
You’re assuming the goal of the anti-abortion laws is to reduce the number of abortions. The actual goal is to increase birth rates to increase demand for jobs, goods, and services.
Eh. I don’t think it’s that deep for most people and politicians that oppose reproductive rights. I think that’s likely true for some oligarchs that have aligned themselves with the right, and I think that’s partially true for people that subscribe to great replacement conspiracy theories. But I think for most people, it’s pretty much what they say it is: a moral issue.
FWIW, I was opposed to reproductive rights up into my very early 20s; I truly believed that it was an issue of personal responsibility, and I thought that both men and women needed to suck it up and ‘do the right thing’ if there was an unintended pregnancy. It took a pretty significant personal event–the loss of my religious faith–for me to see how fundamentally shitty that view was.
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to say that’s why everyone who supports abortion bans secretly believes. I just think that’s why it’s being pushed politically, as well as to get support from those who oppose abortion for whatever reason.