Lisa Martens
1 min readJul 1, 2022

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one can argue that having to give up everything to have a baby would change the mother's life. this argument assumes the mother's life and autonomy do not matter. By this logic, if someone needed your lung, and kidney to live, you should have to give it to them even if it would dramatically impair your life, how you live, and your life expectancy. Even if you could no longer do the things you do now. Don't you want to give someone else the chance of life? What if they will do something great one day? The pro-life argument reduces a woman's autonomy to a sacrifice.

Forced birth terminates life. It terminates the path of the lives being forced to make this change, who do not want to. It's a slower death into poverty, resentment, and trauma. But first, you have to see those lives as people, too. That's the problem.

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