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I agree with you that women should not get a free pass on the decision to abort. However, I think you should consider another angle.

Abortion was/is sold as ALL women (even female children under 18) being emotionally and intellectually mature enough to make such a decision on their own with no input from anyone.

This is not true of any major decision in life (leave alone abortion/women for a moment). In what other area of life is it assumed that ALL people are capable of making major decisions on their own and are not swayed by anyone/anything?

Look at the whole mortgage debt crises and student debt crisis where so many people claim that ADULTS were duped into taking out loans who didn’t know what they were getting into and so should not have to pay back the loans or should somehow be let off the hook because they were tricked or duped. Zillions of stories in the news claiming that millions of ADULTS were not mature enough or knowledgeable enough to make such major decisions.

For example, many young people are pressured to go to college and take out loans. Does this mean we should let them off the hook for the loans? No. But at the same time we can still acknowledge that parents, schools, and society in general put a lot of pressure on them to take out loans when it may not be a good decision.

As conservatives we should be very clear. First off we should not buy into the liberal BS that every single female on the planet is autonomously making these decisions. This is simply not the case, particularly with young women and girls under the age of 18. Many ARE coerced into having abortions by parents, boyfriends etc. (And likely there are women/girls who want abortions but are coerced into having the baby). The point is, these decisions are not made in isolation.

The liberal lie that all women make abortion decisions in a total vacuum needs to be challenged. Lots of societal and personal influences contribute to the decision. However, this does not by any means translate into women having zero responsibility.

We must work to change the culture that normalizes, advocates and even praises abortion. This culture affects everyone, not just women who might become pregnant. A lot of people are culpable in the abortion-culture existing in the first place.