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What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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You mean the "rights of women"? I'm sure you've heard all of the arguments already, but here we go:
There is no good reason to restrict abortions. The world is not a better place when unwanted children are brought into it, especially when the people that are pushing to ban it don't want to offer any sort of governmental assistance to deal with said child. It almost feels like the intent isn't to help the baby, that it's more of a punishment for the woman for being "immoral".
The reason why the "elite" want to ban it is because it easily destroys your potential to get ahead. They don't want an educated populace, they want a multitude of dumb, cheap labor, and restricting abortion is an extremely easy way to get that. Also by getting conservatives to hyperfixate on this issue (and things like LGBTQ rights), it draws attention away from wealth inequality, labor right, and other systemic issues.
I was talking about the killing of babies that were already born in Gaza, but ok.
Ah, that reads exactly like, "Democrats need for abortion (i.e. killing babies) was more important than winning."
My bad! 😆