What Do Pro-Lifers Really Want?
Just for a moment, imagine what a society in which women are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term would actually look like, given the fact that abortion is currently a legal medical procedure. For instance, it would entail such a step backwards in terms of women's rights that Feminists would, by necessity, devote all of our efforts to re-securing the right to safe and legal abortions for all women, which would in turn require a massive police deployment by the State to enforce the new law re-criminalizing abortion. And how would the State go about forcing women to bring unwanted pregnancies to term? Would it lock up women who wanted abortions, strapping them to gurneys in birthing prisons, until they gave birth? Who would then "own" the born? Speaking of free speech, would expressing regret over a pregnancy be enough to have the State step in and take over ownership of the unborn by expropriating the body of the woman until she gives birth? What if the woman was impregnated against her will? What would her rights be then?
I mean, not to sound naive, but surely pro-lifers are not suggesting we live in a fascist police state in order to prevent women from having the right to safe and legal abortion services. Or are they...
