LogFAQs > #904164217

The most charitable view of the pro-life position is that they wholeheartedly believe a fetus or a zygote is a living human being that is completely innocent. Thus an abortion is the murder of the most innocent people in society, before they get a chance to do anything. This is happening in the millions, especially to poor people and POC. That's millions of lives snuffed out every year right? If taken seriously, how is that not by far the biggest issue in society? How are people claiming they are pro-life and living normal lives and not in a constant uproar if a baby holocaust is going on, right in their backyard?

Instead, I see most of the venom concerning abortion directed at women's sexual activity, advocating limiting sexual education, limiting access to contraception etc, none of which is likely to reduce the number of abortions, while doing the opposite has been proven to save lives. I see people supporting the abortion in the case of sexual assault which seems strange

There's definitely a small class of true believers who act as you'd expect if they really thought the problem with abortion is that babies are dying. They do terrible things like bomb clinics, harass women, and support hyper-controlling and punitive laws, but that makes sense if you really think lives are at stake.

So WTF are these other "pro-life" people doing then? There's been tons of debates, even on this site about abortion and not once did I get the sense that people truly believed innocent lives were at stake. From the discussions I've seen about abortion here and elsewhere, the actions/inaction and rhetoric of 95% of pro-lifers make much more sense if the driving goal issue is controlling women and punishing them for sexual activity that is immoral in their view.
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