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Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ... by dragonwriter on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:38PM (#32144214)
> The pro-life position includes people who want to ban abortion in the general case even while allowing abortion for exceptional cases.

Yes, but pro-life people are more likely to see “balancing mortality risks” cases as exceptional than “circumstances of parenting” cases.

Just like people opposed to deliberate homicide in general are more likely to see “self defense” as an exception than “the existence of the person killed reminded me of a bad thing that that person didn't cause”.

Rape victims are an issue that resonates particularly strongly with people who see the central issue as one of the pregnant person’s bodily autonomy, not those who see it as about the fetus as a human life.

Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ... by throwaway894345 on Monday July 18, 2022 @06:01PM (#32144543)
I'm not following. In particular I'm not sure what you mean by "circumstances of parenting" that would make it comparable with "balancing mortality risks" with respect to exceptionality.

> Rape victims are an issue that resonates particularly strongly with people who see the central issue as one of the pregnant person’s bodily autonomy, not those who see it as about the fetus as a human life.

There are some pro-life people (per the parent's claim) who believe that a child's life is so precious that it overrides the mother's right to bodily autonomy even in rape cases; however, this doesn't mean that they care less about rape victims than people who care about bodily autonomy--for example, they could care the same amount (or even more), but value unborn life even more. Notably, the loudest (most popular?) pro-choice claim is that unborn children don't constitute human life, that they're mere "clumps of cells", so all we can say (at least as far as it concerns people who hold this view) is that they care more about rape-victims than they care about "clumps of cells" which isn't strong evidence that they care a lot about rape victims.