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by fundad 1431 days ago
Does that apply to maximum ages for drinking, voting, signing contracts and driving? No, we have no maximum ages because older people are a more powerful constituency than 20 or 17 year-olds. Pregnant people are not a powerful enough constituency for these laws to provide them leniency. It's not about the life of the fetus either the movement limiting or banning abortion is out to change culture such that people are more afraid to wait to have children.