.@PeterSinger is 100% right about the following: If you deny that this prenatal child is a member of moral community, then you must deny that neonatal children are members of the moral community. The reproductive right to abortion implies the reproductive right to infanticide. 
Significantly, this was the view of the ancient pagans who practiced both abortion and infanticide in order to control reproduction. The ancient Christians who lived among them opposed the culture of both abortion and infanticide in defending radical human dignity and equality.
Also significant is the fact that, as our own Western culture de-Christianizes, we are returning to the idea that the right to abortion implies the right to infanticide. We kill infants, (mostly) not by action, but by omission. I write about that here. thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/04/81840/
Yes, there are ways to think about abortion as the right to bodily autonomy, not reproductive autonomy. (Thanks in part to the infamous violinist thought experiment.) But the move to aiming at the death of children after birth reveals that this (mostly) isn't what is going on.
Yes, we need to be better as pro-life movements making it clear that we will always save the life of the mother if that's what she wants, including in cases where there is a gray area. Yes, we need to make sure women and families are supported if they choose life. Though it is...
...worth noting corporations paying for women to travel to have abortions, and not supporting women who choose life, are definitely not "pro-choice." nbcdfw.com/news/business/… Happily, the pro-life movements are becoming more and more skeptical of how much capital loves abortion.
There is nothing contradictory about pursuing prenatal justice for a 15 week-old prenatal human being and pursuing justice for her mother. Ireland (before recent events), Chile and Poland have banned almost all abortion and have had amazing outcomes for women. Indeed, consider...
...Poland has one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe while also having THE LOWEST MATERNAL MORTALITY in all of Europe. nytimes.com/2022/07/09/opi… Let us resist the utterly false narrative which diabolically pits mothers against their children. Not just because it is so...
...destructive for women who years later resent being coerced (structurally, if not physically via intimate partner violence) into having an abortion, but also because it redistributes the very real oppression so many women face. We can #resistthrowawayculture and choose both.
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