Originally Posted by ape descendant
They don't think of women as individual people, who may already have as many children as they can properly care for, as students, people who may have harmful addictions, people who may have serious illnesses, as people who have their own problems, people who for whatever reason are just not in a position to be pregnant for nine months.
They don't understand or don't care about the dangers and changes one's body undergoes with pregnancy, the swelling, the pain, having one's organs squished to the point of having a difficult time breathing, being unable to eat or drink certain things (coffee, some kinds of fish, alcohol, etc), having one's muscles and ligaments stretched to extremes, the risk of gestational diabetes, the possibility of having one's body permanently injured from the inside and the possibility of dying in childbirth.
Then, after the child is born one must heal up, usually takes about 6 weeks, part of that is just needing to rest after the tiring ordeal of giving birth, healing of the vagina, shrinking of the uterus so, no sex. With all this going on, the woman will likely have to miss work and at least here in the U.S. may risk losing her job.
Many don't understand that there are women who have been coerced, tricked or forced into a pregnancy by an abusive partner. That many women face increased risk of abuse during pregnancy.
Or they're just cruel assholes who hate women and think babies are punishment for sex.
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