Why do some pro lifers think women should be punished with pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

Dont they realize it's more too it than just getting pregnant and avoiding responsibility. Usually it's the immature sex addicted man that won't take responsibility in the first place and they refuse to pay for child support so I don't see why the women is being slut shamed for taking the option of abortion.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Pro-lifers believe women should be punished with pregnancy for a few reasons.
1. They believe it’s mostly irresponsible teenagers getting abortions and they absolutely hate the idea of teenagers having sex, or fun, and they see it as a way to hold them accountable.
2. They also genuinely believe that abortion is murder and the murder of innocents is an abhorrent crime that should be punishable by death but you can’t kill a mother so it’s easier to just force her not to kill the baby.
3. A lot of this is fueled by the power of white supremacy in christian evangelism that specifically wants more white women to have more white babies even though forcing women, or even children, to do so goes against a lot of those same christian morals, which is something they choose to ignore as they’ve been told that going down this path is a reflection of personal righteousness and validates everything they believe about how being a good person means exclusively following religion and believing in the “correct” god, not in paying attention to the teachings of said religion or thinking about them critically so as better to apply them to the modern world.

[Thatpearl26]

The thing that we all have to understand is that it wasn’t just the man. It was also the woman who decided to have sex (not counting cases of rape). Then we also have to take responsibility for our actions. As someone wise once said everything we do has consequences. It just depends on whether we take responsibility or ignore them until they are right in front of us. Besides abortion shouldn’t be used as a form of birth control. There’s already many birth control options that don’t lead to a babies death.

[Naydyonov]

Saying pregnancy is the punishment of sex is like saying death is the punishment of suicide. The biological goal of sex is pregnancy. Same as the goal of suicide is death. These are predictable outcomes. Assuming them to be punishments assumes a universal morality exists in which pregnancy is a punishment, which ironically fits in quite well with a religious view of the world: God as punisher & savior.

The purely scientific view of pregnancy is simply pregnancy as the result of sex.
Any view otherwise, pregnancy as miracle or punishment, is inherently a religious view of the world, in which universal morality exists.
At which point, the differentiation becomes the Christian view of pregnancy as miracle, versus the secularist-religious view of pregnancy as punishment.
Once again, the purely scientific view is pregnancy as the goal of sex. I was about to use "consequence" instead of "goal", but "consequence" also plays into the view of pregnancy as something distinct from sex, as opposed to its logical conclusion.

[Meropatrick]

This is not a pro lifer way of thinking, a child isn't a punishment. And second if she is stupid enough to get pregnant with all of birth controls available nowadays then she deserves to be punished and a prison sentence is really suitable. Because stupidity and ignorance are crimes and deserve the maximum punishment for

[BootsLover94]

I will never get why pro-lifers care about what strangers do. People should just mind their own business and improve their own lives

[nolabels]

Punished with pregnancy, huh?

Nonsense.

Who's doing what to whom, and who is having it done unto them?

Short of rape, undesired pregnancy is due to irresponsible sex, by all parties involved.

[Steve1181]

From the side lines me and my wife just had our third pregnancy scare. Being careless and immature not using any birth control. If she was pregnant should she be punished with a birth for this behavior?

[Meropatrick]

You r 41 and you still do such a mistake jeez

[Steve1181]

@Meropatrick yes just being honest.

[WanderingLoveWizard]

I'm not prolife, but "refuse to pay child support"?
You can't refuse court ordered payments.
I mean I guess you could, if you don't mind jail and garnished wages

[Snakeyes7]

The same reason why you have no right to complain if you make the conscious decision to play high stakes poker and lose a lot of money because you had a bad hand.

[Cubus]

No one is punishing anyone. It's their choice to have sex.

[austinbooth]

For my opinion they shouldn't be