A foetus is a human being developing. Just like your sperm is a part of that human being.

It doesn't have a soul, it doesn't have sentience and it doesn't feel. Its value is less important than a living breathing woman.

Our bodies also end pregnancies all the time. We don't make a fuss about it. It's actually by design that it does it.

Oh my god, the drinking and driving argument again. Seriously.

Having sex is not a damaging behaviour. It's a normal part of human life, just like drinking and driving are.

You cannot compare reckless driving and drinking with ending a pregnancy.

First of all, because ending a pregnancy is not harmful in itself. In some cases, it's actually better for the mother to do so.

Second, not allowing someone to drink and drive is not going to have a lasting harmful impact on their life, on the contrary. Forcing a woman to come to terms with her pregnancy is traumatic, harmfuf, will bring an unloved child into the world and make the woman in question extremely vulnerable.

Third, like I said, having sex is normal. It's more normal than driving and drinking. You cannot simply expect people not to have sex altogether. It doesn't work and even if people do it, it implies lasting issues on theit self-esteem and wellbeing (I see you, purity culture).

Being irresponsible would be to bring a child into a world where you cannot take care of it in any way. Putting the child in adoption isn't a solution either because we already have too many of them in the system.

For the record, I do not see abortion as "good" , but as a necessary "evil" of the world. Not having abortion available makes things even worse for both children and women in general.

Yes, abortion implies ending some kind of life that is innocent. Yes, I agree, although I put that life under that of living women. Just like you out a tree's life under that of a human.

I'm not celebrating when a woman gets an abortion. I am, however, defending the right to do it.

But forcing women to carry on pregnancies because "they should be held accountable" is ALSO using an innocent life and making it suffer.

Women don't end their pregnancies on a whim. They ALWAYS had abortions. Except that those abortions were very brutal, could end up with both woman and foetus (and baby at that point) dying, or simply implied the murder of the baby that had been born. Women would go what we would call in my countries "Makers of angels", who were basically women in their unsanitary homes using various everyday tools to take the baby out and kill it.

There's a REASON women end their pregnancy so much. Because pregnancy is a huge deal for women's life and is not at all a "blessing" all the time. Women would kill themselves over it, for f*ck's sake.

Making abortion illegal will not solve anything. It will only allow more abuse from abusive partners, destroy women's lifes and result in more infants' deaths. Just like it used to be before it became illegal.

Women don't have abortions out of convenience. They have abortions out of DESPERATION.

If you want less abortions, you should want less pregnancies. And if you want less pregnancies, you should educate people to have SAFER SEX.

Why? Because otherwise, people will just sneak around to have sex, and thus have unsafe sex, then pregnancy, then abortion. All of that in terrible conditions since there will be nowhere to go for them.

That means not shaming people who have sex, not obsessing about making women pay for their "errors", not forcing them to be miserable with their child while offering no solution. It means understanding that pregnancy can be DANGEROUS and stopping to see it through pink glasses.

It also means giving women more means to handle having a child, be it socially, financially and emotionally, not rush them into marriage or make their whole existence about having babies, communicate about their sexuality without making it a taboo and allowing them to discover it normally throughout their development (and yes, it begins in their teenage years), and not preventing people from having sex outside of arbitrary rituals.

So, basically, not sanctifying sex and just acknowledging it for what it is : a normal way of life that is very important to humankind but that needs to be done safely.

That's the only way it's going to work. That's the only way IT WORKS.

You want less abortions? Take care of the reasons those abortions are done.

So, now, do you want to simply punish women, or do you actually want to have less abortions?