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I just believe life should be for all.
And that's fine. No one is going to disagree with you. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and quite a few other things along those values should be universal. No right minded person would argue otherwise.
However you're twisting a religious principle which is against abortion by fundamentalist Christians, not all Christians I might add but people who take their religious doctrine literally, and you also believe it should apply to all.
And there's nothing wrong with 'believing' it should apply to all. The wrong comes when you want to 'force' that belief, via Supreme court justices who promise to do so. If abortion was actually against the Christian religion per se then there would not be 77 percent of Americans who want Roe vs Wade to remain on the books. There are nuances but basically they do not want to make it illegal.
In many Muslim countries they want to force people again to follow their personal beliefs. But then Muslims and Christians have a big history of this bullshit.
And what is ironic is that it's mainly the fervent fundamentalist Christians who want to make abortion illegal, and yet their tool for doing so is the grossly areligious Trump. Incredible hypocrisy, and one even wonders if they actually care about the issue or if it's simply a matter of imposing their beliefs, their will onto others. I mean look at Ireland, a deeply religious country yet even they understood the damage and misery their ban on abortion did.
Why force a woman to have and raise a child she doesn't want. I know plenty of people who've had abortions then at a better time have a child that they do want. Having an abortion does not mean less children are born, it may even mean more.
Maybe their wanting to ban abortion, would carry more weight if at the same time they wanted to increase child welfare, helping mothers to raise these children, and all the other attendant resources that are not there and are the very reasons why more vulnerable people choose not to have children they can't afford.
Instead it's down to a 'life is good' mantra, and then once the baby is born...forgeddaboudit, job done. Which is what is wanted, not 'life' but 'control'.
No, forcing young women to have children they don't want, and I've seen this directly in the family of my wife, is a means of control. They end up destroying generations. Grandmothers creating a dynasty for themselves.
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