• @[email protected]
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    Who the fuck said we had to choose either? We can live in a world with neither, and that world requires women’s rights, including the right to abortion.

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      Who the fuck said we had to choose either?

      They did, and pointing that out will (I’m guessing) be met with some form of covering their ears and saying “nah nah nah I can’t hear you.”

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        I’ve seen the sort. When confronted with the real-world results of their moralizing, they retreat to quoting cherry-picked Bible verses and posting pictures of fetuses (“look how human she looks!”).

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              You know that episode of Futurama where Bender needs an update to be compatible with the new kind of robot, and he ends up living out a fantasy of escaping to an island of discarded robots where he lead an uprising?

              There are people who need to be forced to live out their own personal Eraserhead.

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          Random question but I’m just wondering your position on this. Is the burden of proof on pro-choice or pro-life advocates when it comes to the humanity of a fetus? In other words, should abortion be legal until we can prove that a fetus is human or should it be illegal until we can prove it isn’t? Just genuinely curious.

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            They didn’t answer, so I will. Trust the experts. This is too complex for us amateurs to balance the level of development of the foetus versus the health and thriving of the woman versus the social and economic effects of allowing the foetus to have a go at becoming more developed

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      The real kicker is: no amount of 10yo parents is going to prevent abortions. We’ve been through this whole song and dance before. The abortions didn’t stop, just a lot more women died.

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      They’re saying that an incestuous rape baby being born every year is a lesser evil than abortions being legal. They’re wrong, but insofar as they believe that, they’re not going to support a woman’s right to choose.

    • @RedditRefugee69
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      Did you not read their post?

      How does protecting abortion rights prevent abortions?

      I don’t agree with them but at least I understand their position.

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        Have you not paid attention to the world?

        Abortion rights are almost always bundled with women’s rights, medical care and contraception access. As a result, those societies with the easiest access to abortions actually have the lowest amount of abortions than societies that criminalize it. Coincidentally it also has the lowest number of women’s deaths, but I can already guess that you don’t care about that part. They are also societies where it is less likely that a child is raped by her father and forced to give birth at 10, since women’s rights are more ingrained in culture, but I already know that by this point you stopped reading.

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          Fuck, you didn’t even manage to make it through my comment either.

          That’s amazing.

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    Got it.

    You want to require 30,000 kids to be born to parents who don’t want them, just so you can force a 10-year-old victim to birth her rapist’s baby.

    You want to require hundreds of loving mothers to endanger their lives by insisting that they continue to carry doomed pregnancies long after doctors have proven the fetus cannot survive and is in excruciating pain even before it is born. Why? So you can force a 10-year-old to bear her rapist’s child?

    Go to hell, Kaya.

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      They all want to ban abortions but they don’t want their tax dollars “wasted” on healthcare for the mother/child, on school lunch programs, on food banks, on welfare for struggling families or bear any responsibility at all for the wellbeing of the child after its born.

      Seems to me they don’t care about the children at all in most cases.

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        I mean, this one specifically cares that a child might not be forced to birth her father-rapist’s baby.

        She seems to care quite a bit.

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        No and they’ll admit it. They just want to punish women for having sex.

        If men gave birth, abortion would be a sacrament.

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        All they care about is punishing “slutty leftist women” for having sex. They’re sure the laws will never negatively impact people they care about, just their enemies.

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      You missed an important bit. They want the ten year old raped and forced to carry their fathers child every year

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        I mean after a year the child is no longer 10, so at this point we are scarring a new child every year.

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    Here’s a fucked up article about study done in states with abortion restrictions. Around 64,000 babies born from SA in states with abortion restrictions. And somehow we’re the extremists for not wanting that, for wanting all women to have a choice.

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    It doesn’t even stop any other abortions though. It actually increases the number of abortions.

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    I hate to say this but babies being found in garbage bins is about to be a fairly regular occurrence.

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    A major problem with abortion on condition of rape is that it motivates false accusations.

    It is an evil law supported by people who don’t care about male victims.

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      What percentage of cases would this even apply to?

      Weird and fucking disturbing that you manage to make men out to be the victims here.

      The vast majority of rape accusations are, in fact truthful. Like, fucking overwhelmingly so. But, who cares about the ‘females’ right?

      Honestly, this is the kinda statement I’d expect from a rapist, simply due to the utterly vile lack of empathy for women.

      And besides, who is gonna try make an accusation of rape, even when that is literally what happened, when there is no damn chance of a conviction in time to get the abortion.

      You’re fucking weird

      Edit: I’m just gonna go ahead and say it: I don’t believe this has ever, or will ever happen. Absolutely no man is getting accused of rape just so the women can get an abortion. Fucking zero. None.

      And just how many abortions have been approved so far due to rape? I bet that’s also zero.

      Disgusting. Just fucking completely disgusting. There’s are NO MALE VICTIMS TO ANTI ABORTION LAWS. Yeesh

      Keep your incel shit to yourself. Fuck

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        Their point was that incentivising rape allegations as a means to permit an abortion will lead to a non-zero number of instances where false allegations will occur. This is correct. Men weren’t being victimized, and comparing this guy with a rapist is immature and downright disrespectful to victims of rape.

        If you are ok with a few more instances of men being falsely accused of rape for the greater good of women, then your thinking is analogous to the person in the original post who was ok with 1 person being raped to stop the killing of thousands of unborn babies.

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          No. That is a bizarre assumption. No, an allegation is not sufficient for any of these backwards evil laws. And a conviction will never happen in time.

          So, bullshit. This will not increase the number of false accusations, which, again, is a fucking tiny percentage.

          Women are dying, in horrible agony. Loves are being ruined. And no, even if there was an increase in false accusations, which no there won’t be, but if there were?? I couldn’t care less.

          The pathetic and disgusting desire to make this about men is inexcusable. Fuck that bullshit. And, btw, that asshole I replied to sounds like a psychotic fucking abuser. It’s true. So blow me if you don’t like it, I don’t fucking care.

          The massive fucking amount of fear, pain, and death inflicted on women by this shit. If your honestly concerned about a complete fucking false danger to men? Go play a rousing game of hide and go fuck yourself.

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            You really invalidate your position when you state that you wouldn’t even care if more false accusations increase. You are making this a men vs. women issue which is it absolutely not. This tribalism is not only unproductive it’s destructive. I know plenty of informed women who are against abortion and plenty of informed men who favor it.

            You have an awful lot of faith in humanity if you think any law won’t get weaponized for evil when possible. But I guess a man wrongfully going to jail for 10-20 years for rape isn’t evil in your eyes, or you have gaslight yourself into believing that men are never victims.

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              False accusations are, statistically speaking, completely insignificant. You clearly have no idea how stupidly small the percentage is.

              Even so, a salary accusation just does compare to the damage caused to the women and children involved. So why the fuck would I care about men put in a situation where they might have to flee to another state or some shit.

              Tribalism? What the fuck are you even on about?! I care about the increase in human suffering. Fuck your tribalism bullshit, I didn’t give a shit about the talking heads and echo chambers.

              And these laws will be weaponized. And the suffering, pain, and death inflicted on the women and children… Honestly, your entire argument fucking disgusts me to the very core.

              The bigotry in your arguments is astounding. Not to mention the hypothetical harm your defending is just utterly asinine. Even if there’s an increase, false accusations still won’t be statistically significant on any level. But, oh my god, think of the poor…manly men??? Fuck that entire idea is stupid

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                You have no basis for your claim of false rape accusations being statistically insignificant. Only 2-5% of rape cases result in a conviction, which is the only provable statistic that is relevant, which suggests that 95%+ of rape accusations are false (obviously the legal system isn’t 100% just, my point is you have no evidence or basis for your claim).

                “I care about the increase in human suffering”. Like I said in my first reply, this is the same argument used in the original post, which everyone in this thread is shitting on. Take a good long look at your morals because they seem to be very extreme and unstable.

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            Women are dying, in horrible agony.

            The answer is no conditions for abortion. Not purely inconsiderate supremacist conditions as a compromise with those who’s vision of natalism is to punish every pregnancy, instead of making families an affordable option to pursue happiness. Conditional permissions and social aid, is a compromise among fascists.

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        About half of rape allegations reported to police are already false, defined as complainant saying there was no rape after proper police investigation/interrogation. Kanin and others replicated the studies.

        Your over the top feminist supremacist hasbara that “only rapist incels can care about the much more violent victimization of men through police detention” should be self censored for obvious evil. Your BS not only directly encourages prosecuting the very high level of false claims made for vengence, attention, or responsibility avoidance, you foster a new policy category of a reward motivation.

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          About half of rape allegations reported to police are already false

          It seems like this number varies from 1% to 70% depending on what measurements you take. Rape is nearly impossible to prove or disprove, as the action usually happens in private and even if there’s DNA evidence, you can just say it was consensual, so I’m not sure how you can get to the matter that any percent are true or false with any certainty.

          Maybe the complainant said there was no rape after being intimidated, or deciding that the legal battle isn’t worth it?

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        Fear of reprisal, not wanting to get the offender in trouble or a belief that law enforcement would not help matters prevented most victims of rape from reporting what happened to them, the federal report said.

        What’s happening is that people who are experiencing rape are not being allowed to choose abortion,”

        Source

        “Highly stigmatized life events are hard to measure. And many survivors of sexual violence do not want to disclose that they went through this incredibly stigmatizing traumatic life event,”

        Even in states with exceptions for rape, very few people got an abortion—likely because of fear and intimidation, Dickman speculates.

        Source

        Yeah, it seems to be quite the opposite if I’m reading this correctly. The only ones hurt by the exceptions are the victims themselves, as always.

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          Why not both?

          People who have been raped – could be too intimidated, but that doesn’t speak for those who haven’t.

          I know that the “false accusation” crowd is vastly overexaggerated, but if you HAD to report a rape to get access to an abortion when you needed one, it could actually cause motivation for it, too.

          And then that circles back, people assuming that when you’re reporting a rape it might be a false accusation because you want an abortion.

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            The only issue I have with that is how this accuses victims without much evidence and distracts from the major harm of these policies. But besides that, yeah, it creates that incentive even if the victims tend not to take advantage and erodes the credibility of victims. It’s so messed up.

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    I mean the concept is not difficult to grasp. They are comparing one horrific thing to a group of thirty thousand horrific things and choosing the lesser evil. They are not “okay” with ten-year olds being raped… Claiming so is a reading comprehension error.

    The issue here is that we don’t agree with them that those 30k other “horrific” events are all that horrific.

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      This is very well said. So many people make this out to be a men vs. women power struggle when it is really focused on whether a fetus is human or not. That’s why well-informed women can be pro-life, and well-informed men can be pro-choice.

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        It isn’t about whether or not a fetus is human. It’s about bodily autonomy. Making it a question about a fetus’s humanity misses the point. It’s a question about whether or not a person has control over their own body.

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          In reality it is a question of getting the votes. The entire anti abortion agenda was started by the right because they needed a new topic after being pro segregation was not getting many votes anymore.

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        Exactly. It’s a fundamental difference of opinion, nothing else. We don’t know much about what a fetus can feel or sense prior to a certain number of weeks, in the normal case, I’m guessing. So opinions and assumptions, and straw men, take over the discourse and debates. It’s all set up to fail, and to keep your focus on something that can’t be resolved. Mission accomplished.

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          We don’t know much about what a fetus can feel or sense prior to a certain number of weeks, in the normal case, I’m guessing.

          I’m pretty sure your guess is wrong. We really do have an excellent idea of progression of human progression from gametes to single cell all the way through to death from age.

          There’s no accident in what stage of gestation abortions are allowed until in places where abortion is legal and regulated, medical professionals are interested in doing the least harm

          Restricting abortion more than the medical profession recommends will do more harm than meeting their recommendations.

          Anyone pushing greater or less restriction than recommended is not working toward the optimal solution

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            That’s what I was thinking, that beyond a certain number of weeks we should have a good idea whether or not a fetus can feel pain, emotion, whatever. That would be measurable. But prior? Can we know for sure that they can’t prior to that? Sure, two cells can’t feel pain (probably). But surely around some time or other there’d be a gray zone, I’m thinking. Or is it prior to the gray zone where the line is drawn, perhaps?

            Looking to learn more here, BTW. Not arguing against you, in any way. 😁

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              There’s no pain before there are nerves to carry it or a complex enough brain to listen to it

              There’s no sense before sensory cells are developed

              And for the Catholics there’s no clean soul until baptism

              (I got that you’re not arguing, and I also treat people who are like maybe they just need a little more information. It never works)

              Ed to add they have examined foetuses of all stages of development and know when these structures are developed. Except the soul, no one has ever detected that.

              2nd edit: I’m not a relevant expert and don’t know what stage of development the foetus is at at whatever the recommended number of weeks is

        • Victor
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          Curious why this is getting negative votes. Please share your thoughts and let’s have a conversation.

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            I mean, yes, for us who believe the fetus isn’t very “alive” before a certain age. I agree.

            But not for everyone, sadly.

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              It doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not the fetus is alive. If a 30-year-old man could only survive by being attached to my body, I should still have the right to say whether or not he can remain attached to me, even if it kills him.

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                Listen, I’m on your side! Read my words here now, friend. I hear ya.

                But for the people who think the fetus is a person at the moment of the sperm making contact with the egg, it’s all about the fetus. You get what I’m saying? One side is prioritizing the “wrong” thing, according to the other side. That’s the way she goes.

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                  It’s important to not let the other side frame the debate. You shouldn’t debate to convince them. That’s practically impossible. How many times have you seen a zealot (religious or otherwise) change their mind due to argument? For me, I would say “absolutely never”.

                  Instead, you should argue for third parties watching the debate. Don’t let them set the ground rules as “Is a fetus a human life? Yes or no?” Let them argue “the right to life of a fetus” vs. “the right to control your own body”. That’s what the debate is really about, after all. Let people make an informed decision based upon the merits of the two positions.

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              I disagree that the difference is the perception of alive

              It’s possible to both hold on to the inherent value of human life and make space to grieve abortions, AND prioritize the physical and mental wellbeing of the women who (for whatever reason) can’t or won’t go through a pregnancy, adoption and/or being a parent

              Even with the assumption that a fetus is human and alive, it is important to acknowledge how horrific and traumatic it can be to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term

              The realities of pregnancy is still quite taboo, so many aren’t aware of the medical risks, physical strain, bodily changes and risk of death that can be involved with pregnancy and birth.

              Reminder that marginalized people also experience higher maternal and newborn mortality, and childbirth and pregnancy has higher risks if you’re for example poor, black or both

              It’s one thing to choose to go through nine months of bodily changes, an invasive medical precedure like birth, and recovery willingly. It’s another to go through it against your will.

              Abortion rights very much comes down to the discussion of who’s rights, wellbeing and bodily autonomy comes first. The unborn child or the woman and the body carrying the child. As well as who has more right to a future of their choosing.

              On top of that, there’s the important conversations of the future lives for both the unwanted child and parents, and the socioeconomic issues. Both in terms of the rich always having access to abortions, regardless of laws and general accessibility, so that poor and disenfranchised people overwhelmingly are the ones affected when pregnancies are forced to be carried to term. As well as how our system is set up so many unwanted kids grow up in poverty. And just… The questions about what qualifies well or badly suited parents, and what kind of life an unwanted child is gonna have.

              Reducing abortion rights to the dehumanization of fetuses is missing the crux of the problem. Additionally, that reduction is part of the reason too many men who are careless, bordering on callus, when it comes to safe sex, cause they view the “removal of a bunch of non-alive cells” to be “no big deal”, ignorant to the impact both pregnancy, abortion and birth can have on women’s body and mind. As well as a potential child, of course, and not having to battle with the moral dilemma if human life and giving side for what could have been

              There are people in my life who’ve had abortions, and people who chose to carry to term. It cannot be overrated how undeniably life-changing a child is - good and bad. It’s a massive, life long responsibility, that should not be taken lightly. For people who aren’t ready for that… I don’t wish that for anyone.

              Tl;Dr Even with the presumption that life begins at conception, access to abortion is vital

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                Agree completely. It’s not a matter of black or white at all. There’s definitely a wide spectrum of gray to this debate and many factors and aspects to consider.

                My wife had an abortion before I met her, she has told me about her feelings surrounding that. She recalls sitting on the toilet and then this lump just kind of fell out into the toilet. (She took some type of pill and so this occurred at home.) It was very emotional, despite just looking basically like a heavy period lump.

                My point is merely that I’m generalizing the arguments that each side has against the other side. One side argues the value of human life as a quantitative value, and the other as a qualitative value, to put it very briefly.

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          If it’s murder, it’s a genocide. If it isn’t, it’s infringing women’s rights. Sadly this makes the problem unignorable, and idiots tend to be the loudest.

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    Why do I suspect that they would be okay with 30,000 10 year olds being forced to give birth to their fathers child to prevent 1 abortion?

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        It is if we assign that extreme view to the person, but if not, it’s a great thought experiment to examine their viewpoint. If one incest baby born to a 10-year-old is okay to stop 30,000 abortions, but 30,000 incest babies to stop one abortion is unacceptable, then there’s a threshold in the middle somewhere.

        Where’s the line? What’s the ratio of incest babies-to-abortions at which it crosses over from acceptable to not?

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    This is one of those topics that people like to force their views on others and not care about the consequences. Another good example is porn. “I don’t think people should watch porn” is something people actually vote for. Yet all the studies performed show sexual assaults and rapes increase everywhere you ban porn. So forcing their views on people has real consequences and they just don’t want to acknowledge them.

    A vote to ban porn is a vote to increase rapes and sexual assaults. Yes that includes more children being raped as well.

    A vote to ban abortions doesn’t stop abortions, all it does is increase the number of mother’s and babies dying from unsterilized attempts at aborting, children being thrown in dumpsters, buried alive, left outside, dropped at fire departments, put into underfunded orphan systems that have more kids than they can get adopted BEFORE you took away their safer way of not abusing a child.

    The only thing these votes do is take away people’s choice, and hurt people.

    A vote to ban abortion or porn is a vote to hurt people.

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      With the porn issue, as well as prostitution, you have the unfortunate conflation of two different positions: “I don’t want bad things to happen to women”, and “I want everyone to follow my moral code”.

      It’s an unfortunate reality that increases in demand for industries that can leverage human trafficking leads to an increase in human trafficking. It’s not irrational for someone to be concerned with that.
      For those people, discussion about how legalization has aggregate benefits, or how the legalization enables regulations that permit the outcomes to be better even though it’s more common.

      With the latter group you really can’t argue effectively because their position wasn’t arrived at out of concern for outcomes. Sexual assault being bad doesn’t make something else not bad.

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        You can have decreased rapes, sexual assaults and sex trafficking. Sex trafficking isn’t directly correlated with sex work as many have tried to make it out to be. Better to decriminalize and regulate something than to ban it entirely and force it into “back alley” transactions where there is no protections.

        If a sex worker says no to something and someone does it anyways, they cant go to the police and say they were raped… because they were involved in a criminal act and would be arrested. Decriminalization allows protections that aren’t vigilante justice to be formed. It isn’t a friend of theirs kicking someone’s ass or breaking their legs/killing them.

        Who raped you? Well here’s his name and credit card information so you can track him down.

        The number of people dying from alcohol poisoning is down drastically since we decriminalized and regulated it. It didn’t increase the number of people making moonshine, it decreased it.

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          So, in case the main point of that part of my comment wasn’t clear: I agree that legalization gives better opportunities to reduce harm, and that the goal is reduced net harm.

          That being said, there’s empirical evidence that legalization does increase human trafficking: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/

          Tldr: legalization makes a substitute for trafficking available, but it also increases demand. Unlike alcohol, you can’t scale the population of willing women on demand, so if demand scales faster than the substitute trafficking can increase past what was there before.

          Something being the right way to reduce harm doesn’t mean it doesn’t have downsides, or increase another sort of harm to a lesser degree than what’s reduced.
          Being able to acknowledge and address the dual nature of harm reduction mechanisms is important to discussing them frankly.

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            I like that they threw in that there is a significant increase in trafficking in countries that practice democracy. That would mean to me that trafficking can be reduced by procedures and punishments.

            I’m not sure why we think the demand increases when it is legal, I would have assumed the demand was equal, but I can’t imagine the U.S. being the hodgepodge of beliefs, nationalities, and body types it is would have much of a demand for importing sex workers. (But I’m sure I’m wrong there). What stops people now? Like when people sell videos, articles of clothing, and such on sites like Only fans and what not is there policies that somehow punish people for offering more money for someone to meet up?

            Can’t say I’ve ever tried to pay someone for sex, and I’m sure many wouldn’t be into it if it were decriminalized, but I do have to say I would feel safer knowing they were affiliated with something that ensured they were tested regularly.

            STI test panels we should really figure out how to make cheaper and more available. If counties really cared about falling birthrates you’d think they would promote subsiding such and not be so anti-promiscuity, promote health care availability for mothers and children, daycares, schools. I’d laugh to see a government pushing propaganda that pregnant women are very attractive in mainstream media. Operation MILF media

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              What stops people now? Like when people sell videos, articles of clothing, and such on sites like Only fans and what not is there policies that somehow punish people for offering more money for someone to meet up?

              Most services that are sex work adjacent are extremely paranoid about not becoming associated with prostitution. The website itself can be held liable if they’re found to harbor it.

              Additionally, the risk of criminal penalties deters people, as well as the risk of social embarrassment from something coming to light. Legalization removes those concerns, and so demand increases.
              To continue with the prohibition comparison: prohibition can never succeed, but it does reduce consumption. There’s a segment of the population who would be willing to partake in whatever is being prohibited, but isn’t interested enough to break the law of work through the criminal connections needed to make it happen.

              The import of sex workers isn’t really to do with the physical diversity. It’s more to do with the willingness of the people, or lack thereof. Tricking someone from a poor country into coming to the US and then extorting them into prostitution is unfortunately often more cost effective than charging people more money.
              It’s why you see so many billboards and signs around international airports informing potential victims of human trafficking that they have rights and can get help.

              It’s why countries with more prosperous economies and democracies have higher levels of trafficking into them. People, on average, have more economic opportunities that don’t involve prostitution and a greater tendency towards self determination.

        • Rowan Thorpe
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          Exactly. Often when people spout fundamentalist (i.e. stridently unlistening) opinions about abortion, porn, and other hot-button topics like (fundamentalist AKA naive) capitalism, etc I wish they would just study some of the spectacular historical failures at iron-fist methods (orthogonally to their respective ethical for/against arguments). The (alcohol) prohibition and “war on drugs” should be enough reference material alone to see that they don’t achieve their stated goals, they just increase income for the people with a hazy enough moral code to play the system. Eventually it ends up looking like the primary goal often is in fact increasing said income…

    • @[email protected]
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      47 days ago

      A vote to ban abortions doesn’t stop abortions, all it does is increase the number of mother’s and babies dying from unsterilized attempts at aborting, children being thrown in dumpsters, buried alive, left outside, dropped at fire departments, put into underfunded orphan systems that have more kids than they can get adopted BEFORE you took away their safer way of not abusing a child.

      and that’s if they survive.

      multiple women have died in texas because of scumfuck Abbot and chickenshit doctors.

      https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/30/texas-abortion-ban-josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage/

  • @[email protected]
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    298 days ago

    Okay, what the fuck is up with the rape apologetics and anti-bodily autonomy chubs in these comments?

  • @[email protected]
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    208 days ago

    It’s funny that one instance of child rape apologia creates so much more in these comments. There are some real debate lords(/trolls) out here making arguments that would be immediately tossed if faced with a child victim in real life.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    198 days ago

    There is no rape too vile that I will not accept it as the price of killing people by taking away their healthcare.

    Maybe I should put quotes around that. Eh, I bet it won’t misused against me.

  • @[email protected]
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    169 days ago

    Also those numbers are going to be way off unless you’re counting things like ectopic pregnancies.

  • JokeDeity
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    158 days ago

    For all the talk in the world that they prattle on about, statistics seem to be on the side of conservatives being pretty okay with child rape and marriage when compared to other groups.