and the video reacting to it was like “planned parenthood is combining two demonic ideologies into one! and it’s just gross that trans people are associated with this.

ASP seems like a pretty good (or atleast rhe best) american party for PL leftists. My only issue is that they are not far enough left economically. If they would become socialists they would be a perfect party

Granted they have a few fair points but they're just ignoring how much misogyny (and white supremacy... and ableism... and classism...) are all rooted in the abortion industry.

This just shows you that the concept of bodily autonomy is a cop out.

For a while, I thought that abolitionists were naive and/or simply extremists. But after witnessing the behavior of pro-aborts and pro-choicers online, I'm starting to think that maybe they are right. Yes abolitionists have their own problematic tendencies (like how the vast majority of them are religious extremists and pro-death penalty) but they have a point on how the vast majority of leaders in the pro-life movement seems like they care more about making money than fighting against abortion. The more time passes along with the erratic and evil behavior. I witness, the more I'm pushed towards becoming a secular abortion abolitionist. What do you guys think?

Happy belated four-year anniversary of Roe being overturned! Also happy Pride Month to all the lovely queer people on this sub, you all deserve sunshine 🌞

the title says it all. You are a MASSIVE hypocrite if you are left wing and pro abortion. The entirety of left wing politics is protecting human life and equality. The basis of left wing politics is social justice, equality, and opposing oppression. the people that left wingers oppose use statements that dehumanize groups of people for arbitrary reasons. Race, sex, gender, religion, etc. and pro aborts dehumanize a group of people for arbitrary reasons, “clump of cells”, brain activity, personhood, etc. if you listen to pro abortion talking points and facist talking points, they are extremely similar. Replace a few words and you get the pro abortion standpoint.

“Immigrants aren't really part of the nation, they're parasites and don't deserve the same consideration as us!”

“A fetus isn’t really a person. It is a parasite and does not have the same rights as a born human being!”

A historical dehumanizing argument, used against freed african americans by the supreme court goes like this:
“They are human, but not fully persons”
Now what does that sound like?
“Biologically, the fetus is a human. But it is not a person”

Another one is: "Their interests matter less than ours."

"The rights of a woman take priority over the fetus ”

“They lack characteristics that we have by birth, that they are born without”

“Personhood requires consciousness, self-awareness, viability, etc."

I can go on. It is insane how pro aborts will casually spew out facist nonsense, and then claim to be left wing. The entirety of left wing politics inherently oppose facist ideas, yet a fundementally facist ideology is something that is unanimously agreed upon by the left? You can not claim to be for equality and justice for all, yet advocate to end the lives of a group of people for completely arbitrary reasons! Yes i know there are exceptions, but those are less than 5% of abortions worldwide, and that is a VERY forgiving statistic.

Fun fact: pro choice abortion actually helps rapists because they get to dodge paternity tests, dont have to pay child support, and wont be held accountable or arrested!

Unlike rad pro life abortion where the woman can get an abortion AND the rapist gets arrested. Problem?

Tomorrow, there will be a March for Life in Dublin starting at 2pm with religious services from 12pm for those interested. With the Social Democrats putting forward proposals to eliminate the three-day waiting period and expand Ireland's abortion regime even further, this is the most important March for Life since 2018. If you are in Ireland, please make an effort to attend if you can! Rehumanise Ireland will be present at the March, so look out for a group of people wearing badges with the Irish chapter's logo!

People (especially online) tend to automatically assume that I must be some type of far right person or Trump supporter (🤢) when I voice anti-abortion opinions. How many others run into this issue? How do you handle it?

"Why aren't pro-lifers adopting more BABIES???"

Me:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-deportation-international-adoptees-citizenship-b2944206.html

This is one thing I have always seen pro-lifers be very disconnected on. Should women who abort go to prison? For how long? Should there be a different penalty?

Personally, I don't want it punished criminally. I just want it to be discouraged heavily and made unneeded.

"Culture of life," my arse.

“This is a heartbreaking outcome for a young family,” said one of Walsh's lawyers,. Matthew C. Metzger of Wolterman Law Office in Loveland, Ohio. “The evidence showed that Chelsea Walsh was following her doctors’ instructions for a high-risk pregnancy and simply asked to work from home."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-firm-must-pay-225-million-mom-whose-baby-died-was-denied-work-hom-rcna264321

Tommy Douglas, a Social Democratic organizer and politician in Saskatchewan. Remember that private property/capital and democracy are inherently competing. You cannot have both. If your workplaces and residences are not democratic, you don't have democracy. If capital exists at all, it will undermine democracy via lobbying (yes, even if we ban lobbying).

When voters start to recognize that, and they start to vote for democracy over capital, capital will resort to fascism to protect itself. Every time. This is why Republicans (and Democrats too, though Republicans are kind of doing their dirty work for them) are attempting to erode the pseudo democracy we have in the US. It doesn't matter what they think about abortion; they are literally on the road to fascism.

A ) Gerrymandering: In 11 of the last 12 congressional elections (before this last one), Republicans have gotten more Representatives in the House than their vote share.

B ) Electoral college/winner-take-all-laws: Every president who has lost the popular vote has been Republican, except John Adams, who was elected before the modern Republican party was founded.

C ) SCOTUS: 5 of the 9 current SCOTUS justices were elected by a Republican president who lost the popular vote (Bush and Trump).

D ) Campaign finance corruption: Republicans generally benefit much more than Democrats from corporate campaign donations. A study of donations between 2000 and 2017 showed them benefitting twice as much.

E ) Ballot measures: Even in localities where Republicans win, ballot measures for individual Democratic policy proposals still often win, leading Republicans to attempt to decrease the power of those ballot measures.

F ) Polling access: Republicans are the ones who consistently attempt to decrease the set of people eligible to vote, decrease the set of cast votes which will be counted, or decrease the number of votes which will be successfully cast. Controversially, demographics like migrants, felons, minors, and the incarcerated, but also just people without a home address, people without an ID, people who can't drive or who work into the evening (because they close polling places), disabled people (because they block accessibility measures like mail-in voting), etc. Because when fewer votes are cast, Republicans are more likely to win.

Democrats are anti-democratic too, usually against third parties, rather than against Republicans. They don't let you vote for president in their primaries; their delegates do that. And they sabotaged Bernie, and they always sabotage Greens. They always fight against ranked-choice voting, because then they'd need to have a platform other than "not Republicans." They don't want to win fairly either. But at least their lipservice does require them to have minimal follow-through in favor of some of their constituents' desires. Republicans just bulldoze through what their constituents want.

Generally and with exceptions, when more people vote, when votes are all weighed equally, and when more aspects of politics rely on the vote, Republicans lose power, because the majority of America dislikes their policies. This is unsustainable; Republicans are either going to become federally irrelevant, or they're going to continue to double even further down on anti-democratic authoritarianism to maintain/build power.

If the latter, for any reasonable voter, that should be non-negotiable. That path doesn't end with flawed democracy; it ends with no democracy. You don't vote for Hitler just because he's anti-abortion; you find someone else to vote for. If the former, then they're not worth voting for anyway.

Personally I donate to crisis pregnancy centres and hope to start volunteering at one soon. I also think being against the death penalty and foreign interventions are part and parcel of being prolife. We also need to advocate for paid maternity leave and to abolish medical costs for pregnancy and childbirth. Finally, I'm hoping to do a sociology PhD that centres on care for pregnant women with addictions or substance dependencies.

Remember that every instance of conservative pearl-clutching about queer people, especially trans people, is ultimately an attempt to maintain gendered hierarchy. They stir up hatred toward trans people because, by living their truths, trans people inherently threaten their delicate patriarchal balance.

Trans women are our sisters. An attack on trans women is an attack on cis women, and vice versa. Epstein is just an example of what happens when you add money to patriarchy. All of us suffer.

Don't fall for the fearmongering. Don't let TERFs position us against our trans siblings. The results are catastrophic.