yeah I think something related worth remembering is that people who have abortions often don’t want to, and when it gets to the point that abortion is necessary (instead of other forms of contraception) it’s usually due to pretty serious circumstances.

financial being the biggest. if bigots and weirdo fundamentalist freaks genuinely wanted to lessen the amount of abortions that happen, they wouldn’t be calling for its criminalization. they’d be calling for financial stability for mothers and new parents, they’d be calling for easier access to other, less intrusive forms of contraception that can lead to less emotional and potentially physical harm to the would-be childbearer. abortion often is the last resort of a desperate person in desperate circumstances and no one is going around getting them willy-nilly, just-for-funsies like right wingers like to claim.

apologies if this got a little tangential. i believe there’s also a bit of an understandable if undesirable trend among choice-advocates to fetishize abortion as sort of a reaction to reaction if that makes sense. ‘We Love Abortion! ❤️’ etc. nonono, we should probably be pursuing less abortions via more accessible birth control (including studying more birth control techniques penis-wielders can use, ffs!) as well as financial security for people who would otherwise want children but view it (rightfully) as a debt-trap deathtrap under neoliberal capitalism.