A reoccurring theme I see on this subreddit is:
How do I respond to x?
As a former anti abortion activist turned freedom of choice activist I’m going to politely ask that you stop wasting your valuable time doing that. What actually changed my perspective was hearing real human stories about how complicated abortion is and how it was the right decision.
In the community I was raised in I was taught “women that get abortions are brainwashed by evil people who hate minorities and babies.” Then I went to college and started meeting people that said “you know I was super stressed with my two children and when I was pregnant with my third I knew that my mental health was tanking so it was the right decision to get an abortion.”
I was taught to believe that the biggest evil of all was to get an abortion over 25 weeks and then I met couples who said “we found out that our baby wasn’t growing a brain and it was such a hard thing but either way we knew we’d be grieving and this was the safest path possible.” The anti abortion movement doesn’t ever want to talk about how second and third trimester abortions are often wanted pregnancies with serious medical complications- those stories complicate the narrative and complexity, nuance and humanity is the destruction of radicalism.
So friends, instead of debating people just focus on humanizing abortion. Those personal stories really change people’s perspectives.