Matthew Kent
2 min readNov 16, 2024

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Even if we take it as complete truth that you're 50x more likely to die in childbirth than abortion, the argument still stands. You might die in child birth. You might die in abortion. In either case it's a rounding error. So is your argument that where we draw the line between a risk that's okay and a risk that's not okay is between one rounding error and another?

This also overlooks the fact that the risk is only half the equation. What's the reward? The reward of abortion is a dead baby. The reward of carrying to term is a live birth.

It also overlooks the fact that literally tens of billions of women have given birth in human history. And 99.9%+ of them were subject to a mortality risk of way more than 22 per 100k (chances are the rate of death from abortion was much higher back then as well)

For countless milennia, it never occurred to most women that this was an unacceptable risk. I would say it's a modern phenomenon, but I don't even think it's much of a phenomenon. I think it's a small percentage of abortion fanatics. Normal people don't cower in fear of reproduction. They understand that there's a chance you could die, just like there's a chance you can die driving your car. But the risk is low and the reward is priceless (for childbirth, not driving). Is it fair that the risk falls entirely on the woman? Not at all. I wish life was fair, but it isn't.

Yes, if the recent upswing in support for abortion among women continues AND if they take the no sex whatsoever thing seriously (I would hope they would but it's not realistic) some pro-life men (and lots of pro-choice men) won't be too happy. But the pro-choice women won't be either. That's part of what's brilliant about this whole idea. The pro-life women who haven't sworn off sex get marriage and family and the pro-choice women get...well, they won't like what they get. But there will be fewer abortions in the mean time.

I seriously think a sex strike like this is far more likely to convert pro-choice women to being pro-life than pro-life men to being pro-choice (that's if pro-choice women carry it out, which I sincerely hope they do and sincerely doubt they will). Yes, men like sex, but so do women. And growing old alone while pro-life women thrive and realizing that all your misery is entirely self-inflicted is a pill I don't think many pro-choice women can swallow.

A pro-choice total sex strike means fewer abortions today and fewer pro-choice women tomorrow.

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Matthew Kent
Matthew Kent

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