Jack Albrecht
1 min readNov 15, 2024

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What you personally find a luxury or a privilege is by definition "right" for you. I am not going to tell you you're wrong:

1) I'm not living your life;

2) I'm a man and thus I can empathize but not personally experience the balance of feelings between the importance of abortion rights and financial concerns.

What I'm saying is that according to exit polls, more women in the US feel more strongly about their financial situation than about abortion rights. That is a key reason why Trump won. The economy sucks for a huge portion of the US electorate and addressing that is more important.

I hate particularly the fact that there has to be even a discussion about which is more important. Bodily autonomy IMO should not even be a subject for discussion at this level.

The rights of the woman (again IMO) must ALWAYS come before the rights of what is growing inside her. The woman should can discuss the matter with whomever she wants but at the end of the day her health and well-being must be the deciding factor.

There are a lot of details I'm not qualified to quantify: When viability starts, when the collection of cells becomes a "baby" that can feel pain, etc.

I also think that abortion should be free or extremely inexpensive so that economics play a very small or no role in the decision process for the woman.

Which kind of brings us back to the start.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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