As a human rights issue, there are people on both sides with different views. There are many people on the pro-life side of the abortion issue trying to prevent fetal homicide. There are also pro-choice groups saying it should be a woman's personal choice for birth control relevant to her health and her personal reasons.
Looking at the issue from a birth control choice, there are lots of birth control options available to women, and many methods are free! Choose a medical-based birth control that insurance covers under the Affordable Care Act and take as directed. Another choice is non-drug over-the-counter protection and plan with partner that it will always be available. Obviously there is also the choice to NOT have sex before being ready to build a family, since abstinence is the most effective method of preventing pregnancy.
What about rape where there was no choice? There are exceptions for when a woman is physically forced against her own will, Emergency contraception is available at many medical facilities to prevent fertilization. Reporting rape to authorities may help them capture the perpetrator so the crime will not happen again to someone else. If this not quickly done and an unwanted pregnancy occurs, many states allow early-term abortion for rape victims as well as exceptions for mother's health risks.
If preventing unwanted pregnancy is really this issue, lots of common sense options are already available as noted above. Are anti-life/pro-violence advocates uninformed or is there actually another hidden agenda behind their rhetoric? Have they done any research into mental and emotional health of women who have had abortions? What do the protestors' words really mean?
Why would anyone cry "not your incubators?" Using the term incubator in a derogatory manner is insulting to women who choose to use their womb to build a family. Whether their own family or to bless another as surrogates do. Family leads to another alternative - adoption. There are agency that will help with closed adoption, let the pregnant girl choose baby's parents, or even help her if she decides to keep the baby. If others are truly for women's rights, how can they so callously redefine a machine that is supposed to be used for keeping babies safe, warm, and alive as bad? Or are they instead implying that women are flightless birds (egg-to-chick-to-hen) with little brains?
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For more on fetus right to life, see Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
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