Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Trump Said A Thing

Paraphrasing, there should be some form of punishment for women who have abortions. I differ slightly with some liberals over what anti-choicers want. I think many of them see pregnancy and childbirth as the appropriate punishment for the crime of having sex with someone other than me. They want to regulate abortion clinics out of existence, and then the punishment for having an abortion would be having an unsafe abortion like the good old days, but that isn't the same as wanting to jail women for having abortions. In other words, the punishment would be chance of death or serious injury. I don't get how this in any way makes sense, but it seems to be the basic worldview.

No not all anti-choicers have precisely the same views, of course, but the movement...