We should really get rid of the term “pro-life”, because the people with those beliefs are not pro-life. They’re pro-birth. They don’t care what happens to the children or the mothers after the birth has happened.
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We should really get rid of the term “pro-life”, because the people with those beliefs are not pro-life. They’re pro-birth. They don’t care what happens to the children or the mothers after the birth has happened.
Anti-choice?
They aren’t pro-birth either, or they’d support things like paid family leave, etc.
These people are forced-birth
Let’s not mince words. Pro-gestational slavery.
The only fully accurate term is pro-gestational-slavery.
They’re simply anti-abortion.
Annoyingly, they’re often also opposed to any of the things that are known to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
They claim to be anti-abortion. In reality, many of their policies lead to increasing abortions: defunding education, defunding birth control, etc.
Exactly.