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@georgia I think we're in agreement that quality of life, whether due to a person's disability or other life circumstances, is not a good indicator of whether they should be born or not

however I still think opposition to abortion to protect the weak is misplaced, because it places hypothetical (and very dubious prospect of) fetal pain above the real pain of the unwillingly pregnant person. people who give up their newborns for adoption also experience trauma that often goes unackowledged in discussions about this. adoption is not a fix-all and I'm not convinced that fetuses can be victims themselves

I also don't think a feminist future is possible unless we can thoroughly separate the PIV sexual act from reproduction and reproductive logics. speaking solely of biological reproduction (and in cisgender generalities here for a moment), it is one of the primary vectors through which women are oppressed. men do not face nearly the same penalty for fatherhood that mothers do for motherhood. opposition to abortion is inherently misogynistic because the burden of it disproportionately falls on women. there are women being prosecuted for natural miscarriages in the name of "protecting the weak." (for the record I think this applies to all women in different ways regardless of whether they can get pregnant or not)