• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Do we dismiss the mental harm it would cause to have a daily reminder that someone [raped] you?

    Of course I don’t dismiss that. But you say this as if aborting such a pregnancy would actually do anything to meaningfully reduce that trauma. You need counseling/therapy regardless.

    Stop comparing.

    Generally speaking, this is not a productive thing to say to someone who has fewer rights than you do.

    Make no mistake, I want everyone to have full rights here—and in cases where it’s literally impossible for one of the sexes to have right X because of the biological realities and/or recognized bodily sovereignty (e.g. males would obviously make no use of a right to terminate their own pregnancy, nor should they be able to dictate whether any pregnant person terminate or not terminate the pregnancy), they should be legally afforded the closest equivalent possible.

    Just argue for what you want without punch down. Women are not your enemy.

    Your implication is frankly offensive. This is not, at all, a fair characterization of anything I’ve said here.

    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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      14 hours ago

      Your implications dismissed it. You talked about how most abortion being done by choice, because you wanted to make the point that a man should have a choice too, ignoring the fact that a cis man when raped, can’t and will not be impregnated and will not experience the trauma of such a pregnancy. There is an imbalance in the comparison. Of course, it doesn’t end with rape but also simply the consequences of being pregnant, e.g. possibly depression. By pointing at the choice and demanding the same ability to choose, you equate both. They are not the same and you dismiss all the differences.

      I am very certain being pregnant by your rapist and having to carry the child to terms would be increasing the trauma of the rape and aborting the child would consequently reduce the trauma. I mean either way you would have trauma but I am fairly certain it is reducing.

      I am telling you to stop comparing to vastly different situations. That your comparison is bad because of it.

      “If this was about women losing something that men aren’t already without, they might have the foundation of a point. But it’s still a fact that women haven’t really given a shit about advocating for giving men the equivalent rights, throughout the decades that they had them nationwide.”… “women haven’t really given a shit about advocating for giving men the equivalent rights”… jup… the focus of women’s lack of “giving a shit” surely doesn’t frame women in any way negatively… yeah… get real.