Thread by @kokokaraib

Putting abortion to a referendum is clearly cowardice when Jamaica only had one prior: on leaving the West Indies Federation

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It also implies the whole nation - not just all those capable of getting pregnant and women generally - has a reproductive health interest in its decriminalisation

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One more thing: don't give "pro-life" campaigns benefit of doubt about how many lives they want to save. Their movements never strongly promote pre-/neonatal healthcare reform. They don't actually treat the death of a fetus as murder.

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Individuals may have philosophical differences, but political unity is around what happens in pregnancy.

For them, pregnancy is a woman's job. For them, there should be *legal* sanctions for refusing to do it. For them, it's about punishing women.

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