LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! ALLOW SAFE ABORTION AND PREVENT HARMFUL ABORTION

Safe abortion occurs during the first weeks when the fetus cannot feel, while harmful abortion is when its nervous system and brain are sufficiently developed to feel pain.

There is no scientific consensus on the specific week from which a fetus can experience pain. When in doubt, it is preferable to be conservative for the benefit of the baby.

Terminating a fetus during the first weeks is neutral, as it is a non-sentient living being, much like a plant. In contrast, the mother can experience suffering; therefore, the just course of action is to protect her.

It is cruel to make a woman who has had an abortion suffer by sentencing her to years in prison—in some places for many years or even for life—and, in some countries, under very harsh conditions.

It is ruthless to destroy a person’s life in such a way, especially when the victims are adolescent girls.

The crime is not aborting a living being that feels nothing, but rather kidnapping a woman in a prison and causing her significant moral damage when she has caused no suffering to anyone.

In fact, despite appearances, many supporters of criminalising all types of abortion with a prison sentence tend to care little about the fetus’s well-being, as they are often the same people who care least about others’ suffering. This is the case, for example, with the cruelty inflicted on animals in local festivities or in industrial farms (they are usually the most opposed to animal rights), or the pain and death in wars (they tend to be the most nationalist and pro-war). And they are generally the least empathetic towards the moral or physical harm inflicted on the LGBTI community (they tend to be the most homophobic), the sometimes unbearable suffering of those who request euthanasia (they are often the most opposed to this right), etc.

Therefore, if they are typically among the least compassionate segments of society, why do they show such apparent consideration for the fetus?

Due to religious dogmatism and an obsession with imposing their religious norms on all of society, just as they have succeeded for a long time with the prohibition of divorce, the criminalization of homosexual acts, euthanasia, etc.

Under a guise of morality and consideration for a living being, what is sometimes hidden is an obstinate traditionalism in maintaining multiple injustices and a harmful gregariousness that implies unconditional adherence to group doctrine, whether benign or abusive. Sometimes it is also a toxic herd mentality that pushes one to go wherever the pack goes, whether toward a pasture or down a well; a type of malignant religiosity toward certain groups that do not fit into their narrow schemes; and an authoritarianism that seeks to impose its religious norms on others.

There is nothing wrong with being pro-choice, but there is something wrong with causing suffering (sometimes very great) to women who have aborted a fetus that feels nothing.

But we can all change. Unfortunately, we have all caused harm, we have all had malevolent ways of thinking and acting, and we all have our dark side. Fortunately, however, all or nearly all of us have an innate sense of justice; we can repent, make amends, and become better, more empathetic, and kinder people.

Thank you for sharing if you believe these ideas will save innocent women, who have caused no suffering to anyone, from such hardship.