At first its hard for me to believe that anyone would think a woman would intentionally to through 9 months of pregnancy with all its complications and body changes (and health risks) to have an abortion at 9 months unless there was a strong medical reason to do so.
Then I remember Republicans view women as property and less than human, so they definitely don't think about what the woman is going through.
They are not a different species--they're just the lowest form of our species. They genuinely (and measurably) lack the features that separate us most distinctly from the rest of the apes like creativity, empathy, feelings of community, the ability to rationally and consistently process information, and so on.
Creativity and imagination are some of the most recently evolved distinctly human characteristics, a higher human function located (more or less) in the prefrontal cortex, the 'newest' part of the brain that separates us from apes. The prefrontal cortex is "[o]ne of the last places in the brain to mature [and] is thought of as the 'personality center' and is the cortical region that makes us uniquely human." The prefrontal cortex also "controls much of the brain’s creativity, a factor in bolstering one’s imagination."
A study from 2021 that measured political attitudes correlating with damage to different sections of the brain found
...people with frontal lesions held more conservative (or less liberal) beliefs than those with anterior temporal lobe lesions or no lesions. Additional analyses predicting ideology by extent of damage provided convergent evidence that greater damage in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—but not the amygdala—was associated with greater conservatism.
The Conservative mindset not only correlates with damage to the prefrontal cortex, but an inability/failure to mature fully and actually develop the prefrontal cortex. It's why they lack empathy--to empathize, one must be able to imagine experiencing life as someone else, and the Conservatives are quite literally incapable of using their imaginations like that. It's a higher human function, one of the very few things separating us from the apes, that Conservatives simply don't have.
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u/henryeaterofpies 15h ago
At first its hard for me to believe that anyone would think a woman would intentionally to through 9 months of pregnancy with all its complications and body changes (and health risks) to have an abortion at 9 months unless there was a strong medical reason to do so.
Then I remember Republicans view women as property and less than human, so they definitely don't think about what the woman is going through.