All the more reason we need artificial wombs. If we can detach the survival of the species from people's bodies, there may be room for further reconciliation, opening up dialectical doors.
Actually I don't know the status of this technology, I just assume we aren't there yet.
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@william_kent I think men can talk about these things with respect, i.e. without handling women as objects of conversation, but I'm far from perfect myself.
I tend to think that important and visceral things need to be discussed by all parties involved, but I do think women clearly have more at stake than men do here. Both are invested in the continuation of the species and in the health of their children, but only one functions as a matrix for the progeny and bears the burden thereof.
Ultimately my best political answer, in the interest of respect and dispassionate reconciliation, is that abortion should be available through whatever pertinent and certified clinical avenues, and that the process should respect privacy in light of cultural stigmas.
re: stigmas I don't think its the state's responsibility to fine-tune cultural climates. I think that is more the purview of activism and social enterprises that may or may not require legislation.