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In reply to the discussion: here's my issue with the 'rare' part of safe, legal and rare [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)... is obvious. There is no negative connotation to striving to make abortion rare, any more than striving to make polio rare. That's because both can be reduced in number - polio through vaccines, unwanted pregnancy through sex education and easily accessible birth control.
"It's already safe (doctors do it), it's already legal (Roe), so time to work on rare by closing down most clinics" fits the slogan despite the fact that this is the opposite of your intent."
Again you are equating making abortion rare with NOT PROVIDING THEM when sought, rather than by reducing their necessity via preventative measures such as BC and sex ed.
"unabtainable and unaffordable abortions are not safe."
Now you've totally lost me. If you can't obtain an abortion, how can that non-abortion be unsafe? How are unaffordable abortions not safe? If an abortion is expensive, how does that render it unsafe?
You are reading waaaaay too much into three words by attempting to interpret how they can be perceived, as opposed to their actual meaning and intent. Interpreting the notion of making abortion "rare" as meaning "let's shut down abortion clinics" is really beyond the pale.