Lila Rose
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First of all, you can't, you know, again, put a line in the gestational, you know, time of pregnancy and say this is exactly when it happened.
So it's also very dangerous to say, well, that's going to be my line for pregnancy.
telling someone they have legal value or not, because you don't know when it is exactly.
So I just, I don't buy that argument.
I don't find it compelling.
I understand people want a line in the sand that they can draw to say some abortion is okay.
And I think the question we should ask, why do we want that so badly?
And that, I think, is the interesting discussion.
Why is America so hooked on abortion?
I mean, I think that the tension is an unnecessary one.
I think we've walked ourselves into a brick wall and we didn't need to do it.
And that's because the mistake of feminism and not first wave, I think first wave was beautiful, but then as we went further down the waves with feminism, the mistake was to say, well, now I need to be the same as men, not just have equal status under the law, but now I need to be the same.
And so if a man can't get pregnant, then I shouldn't have to get pregnant so that if we have sex and he's not pregnant and then I get pregnant, then I should be able to disappear the pregnancy.
That's not reality.
The reality is men and women are different.
And the reality is when you get pregnant, you're pregnant with a new human life that also has rights and bodily autonomy and a whole lifetime of choices in front of them.
And so when we play the game of unreality, that men and women are the same and should always be treated the same bodily in terms of what they can do with their bodies or reproductive systems,
is just a mistake.
And that's why one of the reasons why, of course, we have one million abortions a year now because we're not living in reality.
I would argue what's truly pro-woman and certainly going to make for a more just and loving society is to acknowledge the differences between men and women and acknowledge what sex does.