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CMV: CMV: I think the prolife movement should stop trying to pull heart strings and focus on the fact that the vast majority of abortions are done merely out of convenience

 I see all these prolife movements focusing on showing pictures of fetuses, talking about heart beats and "what if that were you" while playing soft piano riffs in minor scales.

I am prolife and I understand where they are coming from, but I find the whole message to be totally devoid of any actual strategy from a PR perspective. I don't care what your political movement is, it needs to be well thought out, advertising isn't cheap. The facts

* Rape & risky pregnancies make up only a fraction of total abortions.
* Adoption is a real alternative for essentially all other pregnancies.

The vast vast majority are done out of convenience (no doctor appointments, no morning sickness, no worry of emotional attachment, don't have to deal with social ramification of abandoning your child etc)

I think the prolife movement is focusing on the wrong things for a simple reason. They think they're going to "convert" prochoice people when in reality they need to sway the public's opinion.

Obviously people who get abortions care less about whatever you want to call it, whether you want to call it a parasite, fetus, zygote, bunch of cells etc, than themselves. Why even bother trying to fight that fight?
Is talking about when their heart beats going to change their mind? Is showing a little bloody person going to change their mind? No... it's not. Because people aren't stupid. They understand all of that. It's not that they don't understand it, it's that they've done the calculation in their head and the benefits outweigh the costs.

Simply put they've decided that 9 months of inconvenience isn't worth it. There are some people that claim that of course the child "would rather be dead than an orphan" or that the world is overpopulated (factually incorrect). But it's really just about shrugging off the responsibility for 9 months. You certainly aren't required to care for the child after that by any stretch of the imagination.

I think that it's become so back and forth that in many of these arguments it's almost as though prochoice people forget that adoption even exists. Because the movement stopped focusing on that and started focusing on... well I don't even know what they're focusing on? I don't understand this angle at all.
And that's why I think the movement has lost its way. I think the movement needs to remind people that the 1st alternative is adoption, and drive that point home by drawing attention to the elephant in the room. That these children will never be born, simply because it's easier. "It's my body, and this is a lot more convenient. I'll never have to go to the doctor appoints. I can still drink and party. I won't have to tell my parents. This is a lot easier. $400 later, and this will all be over."

I fail to see how the current prolife movement will do anything besides make itself look ridiculous. It's becoming a parody of itself. No one, not even profilers like myself think a giant billboard of a fetus is helping the movement, it's hurting it.

I think the strongest argument in the debate is pointing out the thing that no one wants to talk about. That we're throwing fetuses in the trash to make our lives a little easier. And somehow "body autonomy" is some concept to be held high... barf. I'd like to see the light shown on how "beautiful" that concept really is.
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edit : formatting after repost (yesterday was fresh topic friday)
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The argument that most abortions are done out of convenience is only pro-life when you presuppose abortions are wrong in the first place. They're well worth the "convenience" of much reduced pain, trauma, and unwanted children if there's nothing wrong with abortions. For example, birth control has a similar effect of preventing childbirth, yet your argument that it's only for convenience is equally valid.

The pro-life side needs the "a fetus is a living human with rights" argument in order to qualify their convenience argument. Something isn't wrong just because it's convenient.