Perspective: 'Extreme' abortion restrictions must be paired with 'extreme' support for mothers
Debate is held on HB314, a bill that would impose a near-total ban on abortion, in the Senate chamber in the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday May 14, 2019. By Charles Camosy May 15 at 8:32 AM Alabama’s Senate has voted to ban nearly all abortions of pregnancy, with exceptions only when life or health of the mother is seriously threatened and when the child has a fatal disease. The bill is likely to become law.
That doesn’t, of course, make it a mistaken position. In the middle of the 18th century, Abraham Lincoln’s opponents tried to paint him as someone with positions that were “extreme” at the time — insisting that he secretly supported interracial marriage and African Americans’ right to vote. I think the current approach of Alabama and other states — although they are to be admired for working for equal protection of the law for all children — is politically mistaken.
Pregnancy is perhaps the paradigmatic example of the intrinsic relationality of human beings. It is absurd to call the baby “part of the mother’s body” . But the two people do make and share an organ in common: the placenta. Given these biological realities, all sides of the abortion issue make a profound mistake when, in their rhetoric and proposed legislation, they artificially cut one-half of the relationship out of the discussion.
In the past, I’ve made an argument that passing the Pain-Capable Act, which protects prenatal children after 20 weeks, ought to be paired with paid family leave. Although pregnancy is often a great blessing, we ought to acknowledge the real and sometimes overwhelming burdens that pregnancy and child-rearing put on mothers — especially in a patriarchal culture that still insists that the normative way of being in the world is to be unpregnant.
Resisting “throwaway culture” requires intense efforts to lift up and support populations so marginalized by a U.S. culture obsessed with individualism and autonomy that they are discarded as mere objects or trash. Pro-lifers get it largely right when it comes to doing this for the prenatal child, even when those who hold power in the culture paint us as extremists.
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