I'm just gonna throw my two cents in here, for whatever it's worth. Not gonna get in a big thread argument, but I'm looking at replies from both sides and I might as well comment myself. I'm gonna sperg out a bit and go on a tangent, but fuck it. Here goes.
I am 100% pro-life, and I'm just going to come out and say that yes, I absolutely agree that abortion should be illegal for anybody, under any circumstances (except in the rare case the mother's life is endangered and no other solution such as a C-section will work), on a federal level.
I'm not going to argue over the "when does life begin" question, because there just is no convincing people on this point, I've found. You either think it's a person or you don't. I do believe it's a human being, and nothing justifies being able to kill an innocent human being, but that's not the main issue for me.
Some folks here are saying "pro-lifers want to gatekeep people's sexual lives." Yes and no. Obviously you're free to do what you want, but here's the thing: your choices have consequences. The primary purpose of sex is to have kids, period. Yes, it feels good, it's an intimate act between lovers, it gives you that massive dopamine hit, and people will do it for reasons other than reproducing, but at the end of the day, all of those things are secondary. The main purpose of sex is babies. There is no getting around this. It's what sex is designed to do. Man fertilizes woman, woman makes baby. Any time you have sex, at least heterosexual, penis-in-vagina sex, you are running the risk of making a baby.
This is the entire reason sex used to be restricted to marriage, and why it was so shameful to have pre-marital sex. People back then understood that sex leads to babies, and that if you're not married and you don't have a stable family, that kid is going to suffer. Therefore, sex was something they restricted to marriage. It was saying "look, if you get a kid from this, you're going to have to raise that kid, and you'll want to be in the best possible position for it. Get married first."
People, before abortion was widely available, understood this. This is why shotgun weddings existed. People said "oh shit, we're having a kid, we better get married so we can help take care of this kid." It forced people to be responsible adults, exercise some self-control, and think twice about having casual flings and hookups. Of course, not everybody adhered to this standard, because humans are humans and we fuck up all the time, but it generally happened a lot less frequently.
Fast forward to today. Abortion is basically used as a "get out of jail free" card. You can bring up rape, incest, birth defects, whatever. The reality is that, for over 95% of abortions, it's simply due to convenience. Abortion is used as a late form of contraception. People now feel they can have as much wild, promiscuous sex as they want, and fuck getting married, I can just abort the baby. This has had the disastrous side effect of destroying relationships, devaluing sex into a drug, and ironically, insanely high rates of single-parenthood as some people just keep the baby anyways.
Marriage was the pre-requisite for sex for two reasons. First, because kids need a mother and a father. Not one mom, or two moms, or two dads; one mom and one dad. No more, no less. That's what marriage was. This is the environment children thrive under. But the second reason is it forced you to be responsible. It was a tradeoff to make people be better contributors to society. Marriage is something that's difficult to maintain, and requires you to be responsible, mature, and restrain yourself so you aren't a rabid, wild animal enslaved by your basest desires. Society basically said to people:
"Look, we know you want sex. Sex feels good, right? Here's our offer. You grow up, become a responsible adult, marry someone and stick with them, and in return, you can have as much sex as you want. Deal?" Sex and marriage were intertwined for this reason.
Now, thanks to abortion, all of that has gone out the window. Why should a woman be loyal, be responsible, and get married, when she can just have as much sex as she wants with as many Chads as she wants and just abort every baby that comes along with it? Likewise, why should a man settle down and be a responsible adult when he can fuck as many low-self-esteem girls he wants and they can just abort it? Abortion has completely removed the consequences and tradeoffs that came with sex, and now with everybody able to just fuck whoever they want with no consequences, there's no reason anymore to get married, or grow up, or be a responsible adult, or be a parent. Just indulge your base lusts like a common animal and give in to your passions. Fuck responsibility.
I firmly believe that, thanks to things like abortion, this is why we have such declining birth rates, failing marriages, skyrocketing divorce rates, high single-parenthood rates, and more people than ever just saying "fuck marriage, I'll stay single and lurk in bars for the rest of my life!" And the huge irony of all of this is that these people won't realize just how much it will make them unhappy until it's too late. How many women, and even men for that matter, live like this, get to around 35-40 years old, realize they're old, single, miserable, and alone, and they're too old now to be seen as desirable by either sex?
Is abortion the sole cause for this? No, of course not, but it is a significant contributor. So yes, I do want to ban it, and yes, I do want to gate-keep your sex lives. You being a rampant coomer who exists only to get your rocks off damages society in ways that you won't even realize for the next 30 years. Giving people that easy out of being a responsible adult in the form of abortion is a net detriment to society, and I am 100% in favor of getting it completely banned, nationwide, for everyone.
You may all rate me dumb and autistic now.
