I think there’s this weird undercurrent with the stigma against abortion involving the idea that society assumes women are naturally meant to be mothers.
No one would ever let someone drop a baby in a man’s lap—let alone expect him to sacrifice his life for a baby—but there’s a presupposition that women “can handle it,” that “it’s natural,” and “no big deal.”
The anti-woman sentiment of being “against abortion” is partially linked to an idea that pregnancy doesn’t harm women, babies and women go together, and a desire for motherhood exists in all people with uteruses.
This is why pro-life arguments bubble out of a festering, internalized mass of sexism that doesn’t correlate to the protection of life, but to the denial of life. When women’s lives are stereotypically linked to motherhood as a source of natural fulfillment, we deny personhood.
Pregnancy in and of itself is At Least 60% why I never want a child. It horrifies me.
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