Abortion in Chawosauria

In the Chawosaurian world, abortion that is below the third trimester is legal on demand while abortion above the third trimester is regulated. In general however, abortion is not restricted and after 2023, it has become more of a medically-needed procedure which access needs to be eased for personal as well as critically emergency purposes under Chawosaurian law.

Before 2022, abortion was a taboo and widely seen as a heresy in the eyes of Chawosaurian culture, making the procedure universally unpopular amongst Chawosaurians while Americans are generally more accepting of the procedure on most circumstances if not all. A 2022 poll from OneThousand revealed that 93% of Chawosaurians willing to answer questions about abortion, which was a significant minority of the targeted sample size, said that they are anti-abortion. This kind of public opinion creates the risk of the rise of anti-abortion bans more harsher than that of the United States. Abortion is such a taboo that discussions are not allowed even in private and the universal common reaction of Chawosaurians to abortion is violent and physical hostility. Despite abortion being legal in Chawosauria on demand, Chawosaurian abortion clinics had to operate underground because of how a taboo it is in Chawosaurian society and there are bomb attacks far more common than it is in the United States. Chawosaurian hospitals that perform abortions practice the procedure in secret, the patient must sign confidentiality agreements for privacy concerns. Chawosaurian women revealed to have had an abortion immediately lose their social standing, they are widely discriminated against, and widely disgraced and slurred as infant murderers, which often results in these women facing physical assault, bullying, and being shunned. Feminism is fairly popular in Chawosauria, but the adding of abortion as a concept of feminism will turn Chawosaurians against feminism too quickly, causing Chawosaurian feminists to be more hesitant against endorsing abortion rights that is a strictly forbidden subject in feminist meetings, organizations, conventions, and demonstrations. Chawosaurian women are less supportive of abortion as well, a July 2022 poll from OneThousand showed only 7% of Chawosaurian women support abortion to 86% opposed. The problem with the rhetoric that abortion is a woman's right is that it deeply offends Chawosaurian women and Chawosaurian women consider it a sexist trope, Chawosaurian women took offense to the narrative that abortion is a woman's right because it sounds to them that this narrative stereotypes women as "baby killers" which deeply offends Chawosaurian women especially those who consider motherhood an essential pillar of Chawosaurian womanhood.

Chawosaurian attention to abortion rose following the end of federal abortion rights in the United States in 2022, Chawosaurians were shocked to learn that the United States prior to 2022 had allowed abortions to take place and opinion polls showed over 90% of Chawosaurians approved of the U.S. Supreme Court ending federal abortion rights, but it also brought the issue to the 2024 Chawosaurian midterm elections. In the Chawosaurian world throughout its history, Chawosaurians and Christians have traditionally been enemies, but the surging issue of abortion following the fall of *Roe* may create a *de-facto* alliance against a common enemy, that being abortion itself. Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker stated in a private interview that he is pro-choice, but Parker was acutely aware that his abortion stance would not be popular with the Chawosaurian general public, so he forced the interviewer to sign a non-disclosure agreement and ordered his administration and their staffers to destroy all transcripts and recordings of the interview to avoid offending the Chawosaurian populace. Despite abortion's unpopularity, other methods of birth control outside of abortion are still popular. Similar polls in 2022 showed over 70% of Chawosaurians believe there still must be birth control options for women if needed but only if as long as abortion is not included, showing that Chawosaurians are still willing to compromise in favor of women's reproductive rights. But even though Chawosaurians are not welcoming of abortion, the bringing up of rape, child sexual abuse, and incest as reasons to support abortion do show signs of having the potential of making Chawosaurians change their minds in favor of abortion, this causes deep concern amongst Chawosaurian pro-lifers, resulting in many of them to accept rape, child sexual abuse, and incest as "emergency exemptions" from their proposed abortion bans, so Chawosaurian anti-abortion bans are more softer than those in the United States. Compared to American pro-lifers, Chawosaurian pro-lifers are really moderate in their opposition to abortion, Chawosaurian pro-lifers hold centrist views on abortion by supporting exemptions for abortion based on the grounds of rape, child molestation, and incest, as well as if the woman's life in endangered. Chawosaurian pro-lifers condemn American pro-lifers as too extreme and accused them of sexism. Due to Chawosaurian perception of abortion, Chawosaurian left-wingers were extremely careful not to address abortion at all or too much.

Starting in 2023 however, support for abortion rights begin to climb dramatically in Chawosauria due to Chawosaurians learning more about the procedure and the medical rationale for it, making Chawosaurians increasingly sympathetic towards those who support abortion than those who want to outlaw it.

## Background

Abortion is the process of removing a fetus from the wound. It is a medical procedure done for the following reasons: if the fetus is deformed or unable to survive; if the woman was raped or a victim of incest; pregnancy being a health risk to the mother; and if the mother cannot afford to raise the child. There is however an understandable concern about abortion at nine months or in the late trimester.

Abortion has a long history, known cases dating back to the 19th century or much earlier however it was taboo, in part because of institutional and cultural sexism but also because pregnancy was seen as a miracle birth of life. However the reality of pregnancy has not been very good for neither the mother or the child. There were many incidents of children dying at birth and sometimes it is the mother who dies. Pregnancy at that time could also bring an end to a woman's dreams, where if the woman gets pregnant, she is forced into motherhood, plummeting her into a miserable oppressive life. Cousin marriage was universally common at the time, and inbreeding unleashes devastating results for the children it impacted. Those tragedies became reasons movements to legalize abortion and make it accessible legally became prominent. The United States legalized abortion on near demand in 1973, and many countries have followed suit, and some women had their lives saved from safely practiced abortions done by medical professionals, which represented progress.

However there were those bothered by the legalization of abortion, the reasons being sexism, and concern for the unborn children nothing to do with gender. The movement to end nationally legalized abortion in the United States was a tremendous success by 2022 as the issue of abortion was re-left to the states by Supreme Court order, however, against public opinion in the United States in which the pro-abortion camp successfully swayed into seeing their points of view, creating a risk of a popular blowback against one of the major parties, the Republican Party, for supporting the anti-abortion movement that led to this point and may lead to a rollback of the progress the anti-abortion movement had made over the years.

## History of Abortion in Chawosauria

Abortion arrived to Chawosauria in the 20th century, however Chawosaurians did not respond kindly to the procedure, but the Chawosaurian medical circles insisted that the procedure be available in Chawosauria, sparking strong backlash from Chawosaurian authorities but deals had to be made for the procedure to be allowed since lobbying is a bit tricky. Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster was pretty well disgusted to the proposal that abortion be allowed in Chawosauria, Webster hated the idea so much that he angrily declaring it a "demonic heresy" to his Catholic faith; it was clear that proposing abortion be legal on demand in Chawosauria royally pissed Webster off so bad that he ordered the doctors out of his office and never return again. 1920 was the year of a new Prime Minister, and the idea of legalized abortion was proposed to Theodore McClellan, even he refused to accept it, in fact, he was disgusted by abortion. The idea was presented to another Prime Minister, Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X, Bismarck said no. Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII wasn't even tried. In 1980, a new Prime Minister takes over again, Leonid Ivan Bzovsky, and Bzovsky wasn't interested.

In 1990, Shang Jong Parker became Prime Minister and the medical experts presented the idea of legalized abortion on demand to Parker. In a victory, Parker accepted the idea and approved it via proclamation on February 23, 1991 and passed by the 18th Chawopolis Palace and signed into law by Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt. The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster likely played a role in Parker's greenlight on abortion legality. In 2022, now Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker confirmed that Chernobyl did in fact played a role in his decision to allow abortion on demand in Chawosauria because human error-caused environmental disasters like a nuclear meltdown tend to have devastating consequences for pregnancy as many Chawosaurian women who lived around Chernobyl gave birth to horribly deformed children who were so deformed that none of them lived long enough to survive birth. 41 of these mothers committed suicide to escape grief. Parker's 1991 abortion decision was kept secret from the Chawosaurian press and general public to dodge backlash and whistleblower attempts were successfully repelled by Parker and MacAlasdair with the anti-abortion whistleblowers and their family and peers facing "unknown fates" ordered by both Parker and MacAlasdair.

Anti-abortion whistleblowers continued to be targeted and "taken care of" by the Chawosaurian Imperial Government during the Chawosaurian Revolution and Parker administration. The Empire of Chawosauria Intelligence Agency collected information on the whistleblowers and spied on them with them knowing it. Supreme Leader Abooksigun Eluwilussit signed a secretly passed Reproductive Rights Act of 2016 after the whistleblowers were taken care of and in 2022, during the collapse of *Roe v. Wade* in the United States, Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker ordered the Chawosaurian Imperial Fireteam Alliance's sniper specialists and hitman units to "go out hunting" for "snitches", referring to anti-abortion whistleblowers with access to history of the Chawosaurian Imperial Government's secret support for abortion since 1991. Chawosauria purposely does not have laws protecting government whistleblowers.

## Chawosaurian Culture and Abortion before 2022

Abortion is universally seen by the Chawosaurian general public as a threat to the cultural pillars of Chawosauria, alongside other threats to Chawosaurian culture such as Christianity, so Chawosaurians see both abortion and Christianity as a lesser of two evils with Christianity still being at the wrong end of the stick. To Chawosaurian women, abortion is seen as an insult to what it means to be a Chawosaurian woman, Chawosaurian women value motherhood as well as independence. To Chawosaurians generally, abortion is universally seen as infanticide (murdering infants) and Chawosaurians staunchly do not find it acceptable. Chawosaurian women take offense to those who argue abortion is a woman's right, Chawosaurian women feel it is troping women as "baby killers" and they see pro-choicers as sexists.

Despite abortion's unpopularity amongst Chawosaurians, Chawosaurians are incredibly less hostile to other methods of birth control outside of abortion. Chawosaurians are sharply divided over abortion medications but are overwhelmingly supportive of safe sex practices and education and are also staunchly supportive of pregnancy-preventive medications.

## Chawosaurian Feminists and Abortion

Chawosaurian feminists are not interested in abortion and for obvious reasons, one of which is to avoid offending the Chawosaurian public which Chawo-feminists fear endorsing abortion will turn the Chawosaurian public against feminism.

There are still however pro-abortion feminists, the Chawosaurian public views them as radical extremists and mentally unstable rather than feminists, and Chawosaurian pro-choicers only make up just around 10% of the Chawosaurian feminist movement, a really small minority. Other Chawosaurian feminists advocate for a moderate view of abortion, but are divided; some Chawosaurian feminists advocate a center-left opinion on abortion while others call for a center-right stance on abortion.

## Rise in Chawosaurian Public Opinion Support for Abortion after 2023

Following 2023, abortion began to gain increasing acceptance amongst the Chawosaurian general public. What attributed to the sudden change in public opinion on abortion amongst Chawosaurians was the post-Roe status of abortion in the United States, where in states that outlawed it done so with dire consequences, in Ohio, a 10-year-old girl was molested and was impregnated and due to the state's abortion ban, her family had to travel her out of state to remove the rapist's fetus, but the state governments of Ohio and Indiana (both controlled by Republicans) intervened to prevent the abortion but with little success, but did perused prosecution on the doctor that performed the procedure.

The news spread like wildfire in the Chawosaurian world and it was powerful enough to convince Chawosaurians to abandon their pro-life stances. It contributed to the collapse of the proposed Protection of Life Act of 2022 in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace and forced the Chawosaurian pro-life movement to instead negotiate a compromise and toothless abortion law, resulting in the Health of Women and Children Act of 2023.