First of all, I do not agree that having an abortion is a woman's right, that was a bad decision by a liberal Supreme Court that basically legislated that right out of nothing but a right to privacy, which itself is nowhere to be found in the Constitution either. And I'm trying to think of any other women's rights that are being controlled or curtailed, help me out there.
I don’t agree. There is nothing more fundamental than the right to agency over your own body. Freedom can not really exist without out. For nine months, a woman‘s reproductive and health care decisions will be controlled by and subordinated to another entity. What the abortion argument represents is not the life of an unborn child from conception, but the balancing of fundamental and at times opposing rights.
No doubt there are many who do want to control or curtail a woman's rights, that might be a personality or mental disorder. But let's not conflate that with the millions who don't want that but are against abortion for other reasons.
You can be pro-choice, and not be pro-abortion. If you are against abortion, why not make as unnecessary as possible? Why not do everything possible to encourage her to make the choice of life with all the necessary support structure? Why slut shame her? Why not use the power of our government to make sure accurate and effective sex education information and contraception are FREELY available? Countries that have those policies also tend to have lower rates of abortion. You won’t end abortion, there will always be a need for abortion: to force a woman who was raped to bear the child, to force an underage child (think 11 or 12) to carry a highly risky pregnancy, or a woman carrying a fetus with a fatal birth defect is utterly cruel. But isn’t reducing it, and at the same time uplifting the lives and opportunities for women with children a good solution?
Namely, the rights of the unborn. It's hard to understand how anyone can be so callous as to disregard any thoughts or feelings about a new life for no other reason than he or she hasn't been born yet. For some it isn't at all about controlling or curtailing a woman's rights, it's about considering the rights of the baby inside her. It is a problem that she and her partner irresponsibly created, and could have avoided before or after the act. Maybe we as a society need to impress people with the fact that they are responsible for their actions and if they engage in unprotected sex then they might create a baby and they're going to have to deal with that situation.
I do not feel the baby inside her has any individual rights until viability. Until then, her rights are and should be paramount regardless of how she got pregnant. I absolutely do not believe that rights begin at conception, a point that can not even be guessed at.
You talk about “they” but seriously…look around you at USMB. It is on the woman. She is the “slut”, over and over again. She takes on 100% of the burden, cost, health and mortality risks, job loss and education loss. A man might have to pay child support, but it is dependent on how much he earns. And he can evade it. All her costs and risks? They are the same regardless. If all the consequences, burden and societal condemnation is on her, then so should the power of choice be.
It is so easy to tell a woman what she has to do when you don’t walk in her shoes. That is problem I have with this.