You make an excellent point from the woman's point of view. But how do you think the "child/baby" feels about abortion. Keep in mind, Harris is advocating elective abortions up to delivery.
Many studies have confirmed that unborn babies feel pain more intensely than a young child, because they have not "learned to block plain". Exactly, when the baby begins to experience pain is unclear, but science has determined that it exists by 12 weeks and babies are already responding to stimuli by 5 weeks.
As humans we simply can't process what it must feel like to be torn piece by piece, to have our skulls crushed and once dead to be pulled out of the pregnant woman and reassembled like a jig saw puzzle to insure no "parts" got left behind.
However, for perspective, over 90% of doctors trained to do abortions won't do them unless they can morally justify the medical reason behind them. It is one reason abortion centers exist.
Most Americans don't realize that "abortions" are very "profitable" financially and abortions centers exist because no matter how profitable the brutality of abortions is more than even most trained professionals can take.
It is easy to feel compassion towards the pregnant mother who does not want the baby inside her. But when we begin to think about the reality that the little baby is fully human and by the 5th week has already begun "to feel" and respond to their environment, we have to close our minds to what they must feel.
Vance's choice to compare abortion to slavery is really not fair, unless you are comparing the baby's experience to the worse abuses that took place under slavery.
On the other hand, the experience of the mother is nothing like that experienced by people subject to slavery.
When viewing abortion, we must step outside our ideological bubbles and try to imagine both how the woman and baby feels. When we do that, I think we are more likely to find a compromise that represents the best of a terrible situation.
It is easy to marginalize humans without "a voice". Babies count on us to understand. Women count on us to understand. Let's not ignore the pleas of either one to protect their rights.
