If Pregnancy Did Not Exist and Someone Invented It Now, Conservatives Would Oppose It

Conservatives tend to be opposed to all sorts of things relating to modifying or preventing natural human reproduction—contraception, abortion, use of embryos, genetic engineering, etc. In addition to their moral oppositions, they often have claims about health risks to the mother. I posit that if, somehow, reproduction did not exist naturally and was something invented by humans in modern times, conservatives would find a way to oppose it altogether, with an assorted collection of claims: it’s dangerous to the mother, it causes great discomfort and weight gain, it affects the mother hormonally, it creates new life and people don’t have a right to do that…