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I mostly agree with you, but it's religion that let's people convince themselves and others that controlling women's bodies is being "pro life" while also denying gun control. It's religion that people use to say life starts at conception and there are hugely wealthy and powerful religious organisations that have been using that phrase to lobby for controlling women's bodies.
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Guns and abortion aren't remotely analogous.
If you want a useful contradiction it is how preventing the "killing" of unborn children is of utmost importance, but prevention of them "just dying" through poverty and lack of access to appropriate treatment is just how it is.
Even then one is active and one is passive, so still not ideal.
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It is “religion” but not religion. If it were, as I said, there surely would be more compassion after the baby is born. You can’t have it both ways.
For anyone capable of logical thought being against abortion cannot co-exist with almost every other aspect of US social care and also align with any existing religious belief that I know of.
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The thing is, it really isn’t. If it were, truly, about religion, then pre and post natal care, universal healthcare and access to education would all be equally prioritised. Not to mention gun control to protect those children later in life.
It is solely about the ability to impose one’s will on others less fortunate or less powerful than you, and maintain power over them. Both individually and en masse over an entire social or ethnic demographic.
None of the people making these laws give a single fuck about the lives of children or the way they grow up.