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- eran0004
Conservatism doesn’t care about the freedom and the rights of the individual. Conservatism only cares about preserving a society based on “traditional” values (which values are defined as traditional depends on who you’re asking, but if it’s deeply religious people it’s likely based on some old religious text which has very little relevance to the modern world).Other than power, control and female slaves, what do these ghouls want from an unviable pregnancy?
In the conservative mind, women are not individuals with a right to their own body, instead they are reduced to the function of being good wives and good mothers. Conservatism doesn’t care if the pregnancy is unviable, because it doesn’t care for the woman’s wellbeing per se. All they care about in this case is that abortion is avoided at any cost, because allowing it might encourage other women to seek abortions and that - in their mind - would weaken the society by undermining the function that the women are expected to perform.
The main problem with Christian conservativism in particular is that they don’t live to have a good life in this world. In their mind, suffering in this world is justified if it leads to happiness in the eternal paradise after death. So individual rights and freedom means very little to them, especially if it clashes with their vision of what a good Christian society would look like.