To the average pro-life person, the pro-choice crowd is using mental gymnastics to support murdering innocent babies. Most pro-life debates are focused on the simplicity of “Murder is wrong, and everyone knows this.” But that’s not going to convince any pro-choice people because they’re operating under a completely different paradigm.

To me, the pro-choice framework has horrific implications on female vulnerability, nature, and existence itself. The bodily autonomy argument pro-choice people use is essentially one of existential fear, “I have a body that can be impregnated and I would be forced to give birth if I was pregnant”; bodily vulnerability. Does abortion solve this fear? No, women would still be afraid of being raped, beaten, exploited, being physically weaker than men, et.c. Abortion just moves the goal post and offers temporary security but doesn’t manage the problem at it’s root.
Pro-choice women seek comfort at the idea of being able to get out of vulnerability, but this is impossible. As humans in general, something can always hurt us. Hence, pro-choice arguments lead themselves into trying to reject nature and existence if taken to the logical extreme.
The solution to this existential fear is not trying to treat it from a top-down approach and trying to medicate the fear, but rather, face it head on. Radical acceptance of bodily vulnerability is something pro-choice women would benefit from accepting. That’s life, and pro-choice arguments essentially say “No, being vulnerable is bad” which is essentially rejecting being human. Abortion doesn’t offer safety, but these women yearn for strong men to take care of them and lead them deep down.
I would liken it to Wilfred Bion’s containment theory in psychoanalysis. Like a mother contains an infant’s fear of being overwhelmed so the infant can develop and mature, a strong man contains a woman’s anxiety about being vulnerable so she can develop and mature. Feminism has destroyed this and weakened men. Many people repeat patterns psychologically despite it hurting them, the psychoanalyst Jacquis Lacan would probably call this ‘jouissance’, people need to break the cycle. Feminists double down on their feminism in a cycle of wanting more and more safety but never reach it. Logically-consistent feminists essentially have 3 choices:
- Realize that nature makes them vulnerable and reject it entirely, becoming an antinatalist and being against life itself
- Try to outsmart nature somehow and become something other than human women (good luck with that)
- Accept that one is vulnerable and cease to be a feminist
What do you guys think?