Abortion is not a medical problem, but an economic verdict

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Humanly, I am for the family, for the birth of children, so that there are no divorces and broken destinies. But this is a subjective view. If you rise above it, it becomes clear that abortion is not a problem, but a serious consequence of the problem. There is only one way to get rid of abortions or to reduce them to a minimum - by changing the environment, the living conditions of both women and men.

I repeat, this does not depend on everyone personally, but on collective being, which, as you know, determines consciousness.

Prohibiting abortion under capitalism is about as effective as prohibiting prostitution. We treat with one hand, cripple with the other. We put one on the needle, the other we open private drug clinics. One is privatizing healthcare, the other begging on TV for an operation in Germany. With one we are cutting the pension system, with the other we are encouraging commercial nursing homes and hospices.

This is hypocrisy, meanness and deception.

In a society built on poverty and inequality, women will get rid of children, sell children, trade themselves, because human life is a commodity and is not expensive. The life of the mother herself is also a commodity. No prayer, no prohibition, no appeal to the individual conscience will help here.

In front of the village children's outpatient clinic, the clergy raised a hefty poster: "Take care of life!" Domes, mother is breastfeeding a plump baby. And at 300 meters there are sluggish bums, among whom it is impossible to distinguish already M from J. These are local unemployed, there are a lot of them here. They are unemployed, because all the neighboring state farms have long been put under the knife, and land is being sold right and left. In winter, the population of the district is 3,000 people, and in summer it increases to 30,000, at the expense of wealthy vacationers. And here the drunken locals look at expensive cars with well-groomed children, and then at a poster with domes. You can punish an abortion by firing squad, but you won’t achieve anything.

Vice versa. Forbidden cruelty will only provoke a counter-rage. At first you have desecrated people, and now you are also making fun of them, dare you forbid them to be cattle?

I once filmed a story about baby boxes (boxes for foundlings) in poor neighborhoods of New York. I will never forget the story of a thirteen-year-old girl from Queens who put a child in a trash can and another one like her who tried to flush the fetus down the toilet. I will not forget the Marcus Garvey park in the center of Harlem, the slopes of which, like fallen leaves, are strewn with used condoms. This is the only consolation for the local teenage poverty, this is a vicious circle from which it is impossible to get out.

Therefore, any problem, including a woman's right to control her own body, is, first of all, not a personal problem, but a social one. That is, economic.

The solution to the demographic problem depends on whether our female majority (accustomed - no discrimination - to trust the heart more than reason) will be able to explain this simple idea. It is not the personality that needs to be changed, but the system. Not the letter of the law, but the environment.

A man, man or woman, must want to live. One should want to love (notice how we are now separated by estate-property bulkheads through which love is forced to crawl). It should be clear why to live, why live? Why have children, why raise them? There should be a clear answer - what future awaits the child, for what it is possible to suffer and endure hardships? A person has little biological answer about the self-reproduction of the genus and surname. Prayer is not enough for him.

In the suffocating and hopeless atmosphere of the capitalist world, people (not you personally, but statistically measured people) can and will live only for themselves. This means that no amount of force will make them think about another, the smallest, not yet born person.