Also worth considering: if you're not pro-murdering babies, then you should definitely be pro-choice, because historically mass baby-murder is exactly what has happened in times and places where abortion was not easily accessible.
Seriously, the 'exposure' of unwanted babies (aka: leaving them to the wolves) was a common and accepted practice in many ancient cultures. Parents assuaged their guilt by telling themselves that the gods would save the baby if it was meant to live.
In the Victorian era, 'baby farmers' were paid to take the babies away. They promised to send them to good homes, but in reality usually killed them through neglect (or in some cases just straight up murdered them).
In the mid-20th century, unwed mothers would often be sent to church run 'mother and baby homes' where they would often experience emotional abuse throughout their pregnancy, before being sent home directly after giving birth. The babies would supposedly be put up for adoption, but in 2017 excavation around a former Home uncovered several hundred baby skeletons buried in the grounds (including shoved in the septic tank) thought to be victims of neglect.
Like, even if you don't give a shit about womenâ and you shouldâ you need to understand that there was never any mythical pre-abortion past in which every woman with an unwanted pregnancy just said "oh well" and settled down with the father to form a bog-standard nuclear family. (Nor has there ever been a society in which the threat of pregnancy caused everyone to just never have sex, ever, unless they were fully prepared to procreate.)
Banning safe, medical abortion just means opening the doors to back-alley kitchen table abortions and higher infant mortality rates, because even if they're not actively being murdered, unwanted babies are less likely to be well cared for and therefore more likely to die from illness or neglect.
