re: #51 BlueGrl21

I can conceptually understand why. When you’ve gone through a pregnancy, felt a baby kick, watched the fetal heartbeat, then given birth it becomes very real. But all of that implies a specific set of circumstances…the baby was wanted and it was healthy and so was the mother. They forget not everyone lives in a fairy tale kingdom with Cinderella and Belle.

I wonder if anti-choice attitudes among women actually correlates with motherhood per se, or if that’s just a byproduct of age, marital status, and religious affiliation, which themselves do correlate most strongly with conservative views. I also wonder if it gets a lot easier conceptually for older, post-menopausal women to oppose reproductive freedom when it’s no longer their bodies at risk of external control.