There are three reasons why pro-life is such an unpopular position, even in red states, that most people are too polite to say out loud, but which make a helluva lot more sense than the explicitly stated reasons for being pro-abortion.
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Most people are absolutely terrified of the prospect of not being able to abort a cripple or retard baby. Throughout most of history, outright infanticide was often used to dispense with such profoundly burdensome people. And tbf, people can barely afford to raise a normal child in our dysfunctional economy, nvm a child who will never really "grow up," will always be as tedious to attend to as a toddler in terms of having to protect them from themselves, to say nothing of the medical costs.
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The nigger population would explode. No matter how much groid worship Baizuo engage in, no matter how much public self-effacing bullshit and BLM signs they put up, etc, even shitlibs are absolutely terrified of this happening. Hell, functional blacks are terrified of this as well.
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Only a complete degenerate would have an abortion of convenience, rather than of necessity. So why in the world do you want trash like that to reproduce, and to raise kids? They're only gonna resent and often abuse any kids they're forced to have, because kids to these people = no more fun.
You don't have to like it, or agree with it, but this is the subtext behind why pro-life is such an uphill battle electorally. Moreover, even if it is killing babies, most people don't actually have a principled stance against infanticide - sure, it's unpleasant, nobody wants to see it, but history and even third world countries today attest to the fact that a principled opposition to infanticide is a luxury belief.
Even a principled opposition to homicide is a luxury belief, as there are plenty of contexts where we're willing to kill people, even civilians. It's just that you can't have a functioning society where people are allowed to kill each other, whereas you can have a functioning society where people are allowed to kill their babies.
It's actually pretty simple. With Roe vs Wade on the books, abortions were legal in all states, mandated by the federal government which in many cases supersedes what a state could want for it's people. With RvW off the books, states are supposed to put it on the ballot and vote for it. But the scaremongers have won on that front.
Very democratic. Get it on the ballot and vote for or against it. That way you vote for what laws you actually want. States rights issues and all that, rather than the federal government forcing your state the ability not to choose things like this.
But what it feels like is "I could abort and now I can't." which is not true, you just have to work to get it on the ballot and vote for whether or not your state actually wants abortion legal or not.
However, if your child's birth may cause the injury or death of the mother or the child, abortion of this kind was never made illegal. I know people seem to bring up rape in this part, where they would be forced to birth a child of a rapist. The answer to this, is mostly no. You have to check how your state handles that. And no one has, because I keep hearing about it.
And we continue to hear about dumpster babies and trash babies being discovered. Abortion may be a gray area, (because umm sweaty, you didn't do the research) but leaving it at a fire station is not a gray area. That was always a thing you could do.
You would think being against the government telling you what you can and cannot do with your body also includes the ability to abort. But it seems like a lot of people just use abortion as a form of birth control, when there are cheaper and less homicidal ways.
I actually saw people getting upset over the "you can legally leave a kid with a fire station" (or hospital, or church, historically) as "legal abandonment is evil" kind of knee-jerk reaction thing. It's like they have no inkling that people have and do abandon their kids in dumpsters and forests instead (and yeah, there's a reason the recovered "feral children" of India never learned to be fully human, except for perhaps one case - they were retarded, and that's why their parents abandoned them, possibly near a carnivore's den ....)
Catholic nunneries have had "angel's cradle's" since at least the medieval period.