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.
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.