Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

Now, more than ever, it’s becoming increasingly important to discuss the politics of this. I’ve talked before about how my support for abortion rights rests primarily on the fact that the ‘pro-life’ movement is bonkers [anti-sex, anti-contraception, and anti-women] and secondarily on the arguments in favor of it being a woman’s right to choose. However, as South Dakota just banned abortions with an exception for the life of the mother [not even health, or rape or incest; gotta love that compassionate conservatism], and the Supreme Court lost a key vote in defense of Roe and replaced it with… well… someone who’s likely going to vote against it, it becomes clear that we need to have a discussion on another secondary reason I support abortion rights: how would anti-abortion laws work? If a fetus is indeed the equivalent to the woman carying it, and she knowingly ends her pregnancy, thus ‘killing’ the fetus, is that not premeditated murder? According to the language and rhetoric of the pro-life movement, it should be. But when they are asked about this directly, most are just flustered. They have never bothered to consider the implications of the laws they themselves clamored for. Which again brings me around to my primary point. The pro-life movement does not believe fetuses are the equivalent of a born human. Murder is a Type A felony in South Dakota.

The new law makes abortion a Type 5.

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