Canadian Politics Today

Tell me your reason why abortion should be allowed and/or why it's moral.  I'll then respond by showing you why everything we've been convinced to believe about pro-choice is completely wrong.

If someone is able to convince me otherwise, i'll give huge kudos.

Abortion is a completely normal and natural human activity.  It's been carried on since humans first walked the earth, as soon as they figured out that they could end pregnancy through the use of certain herbs or practices, although these methods tended to be unreliable.  The option for most of history was infanticide, and is still carried out in some parts of the world. 

In Biblical history, abortion was used both to determine infidelity and parentage:  if a woman was suspected of being adulterous, she was provided with concoctions believed to cause abortion and if she did not miscarry, it was assumed she was faithful and the child (if there was one) was her husband's.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+5&version=NIV   (read from 5:11-29)

Child bearing, while being the woman's 'responsibility' due to biology has been given more importance as male validation: I can father kids; the kids are mine; the woman is mine.   Even in the passage above, the man had only to be 'jealous', and he could have his wife taken before the Priest and essentially forced to abort, if she was pregnant.  Note that these abortions were condoned by God, via the priests.

Some fun info on abortion throughout history.  https://www.bustle.com/articles/88626-9-ancient-abortion-methods-so-terrible-youll-be-even-more-grateful-for-the-right-to-choose

Patriarchal religions have always sought to control women's sexuality and their procreation; if you support a ban on abortion, or even reduced access to abortion, you are essentially supporting patriarchy, and patriarchal religions.  Although there are and have been no purely matriarchal societies, in pre-modern times - when women tended to live more separately from men within the community - abortion essentially an open secret.   Even in modern times when abortion was illegal and socially unacceptable, there was always a way - dangerous and shameful - but a woman or girl desperate enough could find it.

If abortion has been known throughout history, if it's something women (and men unwilling or not ready to be fathers) support, openly or secretly, banning it or disapproving of it will make no difference; the whole of human history has shown that.    Women, girls and newborns have died painful and slow deaths as a result of attempting unsafe abortions, whether due to lack of knowledge, or because laws or social disapproval have forced them to seek out substandard services.  Providing safe and effective abortion is better than condemning women to unsafe and unreliable methods, and it's preferable to leaving a child to die after it's born.   

That's why I support choice: it saves women and children from both patriarchy and death.  Personally however, if a woman came to me to ask my advice, my advice would be: I support whatever choice you make, but I think the best choice is to have the baby, and let it be adopted if you do not believe you can care for a child.