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I am not pro-life.
You're ignoring that female privilege is ultimately what holds that frame up. Removing privilege from any group is by definition anti-that-group.
The truth is that honoring that privilege necessitates you being OK with baby murder, just like when men use the privilege of self-defense to kill people that attack them [as opposed to specifically pro-choice women, who are also most likely to insist that criminals have the right to not be killed when they try to rob or kill you because it's involuntary... exactly like an [unwanted] baby does].
Which is kind of why the "principled exceptions" are the way that they are- an exception for rape pregnancies bestows upon the victim the privilege to not suffer/support a forced pregnancy, fine before X weeks bestows the privilege to exempt people who can't afford to be (or can't for medical reasons) pregnant from pregnancy, an exception for birth defects serious enough to render the baby incompatible with normal life that the body doesn't auto-abort bestows the privilege for parents to evade a bad roll of the cosmic dice, and an exception for incest touches both 1 and 3. That's also why the non-selfish anti-woman charities tend to focus on fixing the second one, because 1, 3, and to a point 4 are a lot less controversial (1 and 4 are mostly solved by implantable birth control and Plan B; condemning 3 is not so much anti-woman as it is anti-parent, and people who are anti-woman also tend to be pro-parent).
Maybe its just me, but I am having difficulty understanding your post.
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