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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Won't this potentially contribute to an increasing population of people supportive of, or otherwise apathetic about, abortion restrictions, supposing those taking this course are largely against abortion restrictions?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Support for abortion is not a genetic trait, and seeing firsthand the effects of criminalizing abortion is a quick road to being militantly supportive of it.

[–] scoobford 3 points 7 months ago

Support for abortion isn't a genetic trait, but religious parents tend to raise religious kids due to environmental factors.

I don't think it with be a big enough difference to matter given how much more liberal people get over time, but it is possible this will happen a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, I should have been clearer, as I wasn't aiming to suggest it was a genetic trait. As another commenter indicated below, as well as another in this thread, I was asking in relation to the upbringing perspective.

Although I'm well aware upbringing isn't brainwashing, and so even those anti-abortion parents couldn't prevent their children from being for bodily autonomy, but I thought it worth asking about to see what others might think. If you read through some conservative leaning texts, some of them unambiguously talk about having children for the express purpose of perpetuating their beliefs, so at least some will view this trend as in their favor.

Also to be completely clear here: I'm pro-choice, and for bodily autonomy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, coming from a deeply conservative community in the rural south I’m very familiar with the way parents there believe their children exist to be extensions of themselves.

Anyone under 60 who is anti-abortion only knows what it’s like to live in a post-Roe society, their stance is essentially theoretical and untested until now. When their friends and relatives start getting sick and dying from back alley abortions, miscarriages left untreated, or ectopic pregnancies there are going to be a lot of people singing a different tune.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

No. This will lead to population collapse. It does not matter what policies/laws you have if you literally run out of people that can sustain the society with their... wait for it... work!