What can we do to help? Research shows that many who choose later abortions are trying to find resources to support parenting their child. Connect women to Pregnancy Resource Centers, Nurse Family Partnership and other orgs that provide that support.
The Women's Health Protection Act proposed by Senator Blumenthal overrides all state laws to enshrine unrestricted abortion access across the nation prior to viability, and generously post viability. Please contact your senator.
It begins with the lie that women's reproductive systems prohibit us from fully participating in economic & social life. Rather than accommodate our biology in these spaces, their "solution" is to expect us to sacrifice our children to bring our biology more in line with men's.
1) A human being is ALWAYS a human being. That's not controversial. What you're describing is "personhood", which applies subjective standards (these vary significantly) a human must meet before attaining protection of their human rights.
@Hope60833958@c0norfarrell@leapsaw@covesa@LifeGaveyuLEMON Often, as with abortion, personhood is defined to exclude a subgroup of humans those in power find less valuable in exchange for a personal benefit gained by that groups oppression.
@Hope60833958@c0norfarrell@leapsaw@covesa@LifeGaveyuLEMON 2) It is not true that pro-life advocates stop caring about the mother or child after the child's birth. We support a variety of methods of support. As we're not a monolithic group (we agree on protecting humans before birth from harm, but vary widely on other isses),