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 What I find hard to get most people - even many women - to grasp is that refusing women the right to bodily autonomy is not about 'saving' any single baby.

It is about reducing 50% of the population to the status of brood mares. 

If they had their way, every woman would be braindead and permanently pregnant.

This isn't about babies. This is about enslavement. 
 @012915d0 Which in turn becomes a problem of keeping the belief system from copying itself (into more people, into future generations, however one wants to put it.)

It's not a problem of preventing the behaviour, strictly; it's a problem of  causing the cultural transmission to stop. 
 @012915d0 Indeed, there was a Dutch far right 4chan guy who shot up and firebombed a university hospital because he was mad he had to undergo a psych test before he got his medical degree (he also was into animal abuse). Who wanted to go into medical research to develop artificial wombs so we could get rid of all women. He felt out local alt right party was the only place he had a political home. Scary shit.