The idea that American “evangelical Christians” invented opposition to abortion is typical American ignorance and myopia. Various levels of opposition to abortion is the norm across the world—for pretty obvious reasons. The rights-based view of abortion is what’s actually unusual and unique to Christian and post-Christian societies.
Either way, I think if you're going to engage in some American-bashing, you should probably cite some sources to back up your claims.
It’s more illuminating to ask where the “my body my choice” view comes from. Who are the loudest voices advocating that view? It’s post-Christian white people in Anglo countries. Even in other societies that permit abortion, like Confucian China, it’s not based on this idea of an inherent “right to bodily autonomy.” It’s based on family planning or population control rationales. Even in Europe, the ECHR has repeatedly declined to recognize a general “right” to an abortion. (In European countries outside the Anglosphere, abortion is an exercise of legislative prerogative.)
Abortion-as-a-right is a fusion of Anglo ideas about “rights” of individuals against the government with Christian ideas about individualized morality. It’s rooted in a distinctive and quasi-religious view of humans as having some higher and more noble purpose beyond reproducing themselves.
You're lying again. Even the most strict sharia law countries tend not to have as extreme approach to abortion as some christian ones. Same with buddhism.
>It’s more illuminating to ask where the “my body my choice” view comes from.
Humanism - same as all the other human rights.
Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
Well, sure, there were _some_, eg both Hitler and Stalin have delegalised abortion in their countries. But I'm not sure if that's the kind of moral oracle that todays christian fundamentalists would like to remember.