r/Abortiondebate

User Code of Conduct

Abortion is a sensitive subject, and all users are expected to maintain a degree of civility and respect in their discourse. Users should debate claims and arguments about abortion, and should not debate, or "attack," individuals or groups themselves (criticism of laws/policies/states is allowed). Slurs or hateful terminology will be removed.

Users must use the labels pro-life and pro-choice unless a user self-identifies as something else. This also goes for pronouns and self identity.

Posting Requirements

All posts must be on-topic to the abortion debate. Low effort posts, rants or purposefully inflammatory posts may be removed at moderator's discretion.

Every post must spark a debate, or ask a question.

A consistent pattern of deleting posts is considered disruptive to the community and may lead to a permanent suspension of your posting privileges.

Substantiate Your Claims

Users are required to back up a positive claim when asked. Factual claims should be supported by linking a source, and opinions should be supported with an argument. A user is required to show where a source proves their claim. It is up to the users to argue whether a source is reliable or not.

Users must directly quote the claim they want substantiated, and state that rule 3 is invoked. One day is allowed for proof/argumentation for their claim. The comment will be removed if this is not done.

Sensitive Subjects

There is to be no victim blaming, victim shaming, or minimization of sexual assault survivors' experiences.

This includes mental health.

If an argument requires the discussion of sexual assault, the argument itself and supporting examples are to be worded carefully. "Baiting" questions will be removed and weaponization of this rule is completely prohibited.

Full policy

Weaponized Blocking

While blocking users is allowed, the weaponization of the blocking feature is disallowed. Weaponized blocking occurs when users respond to someone and then immediately blocks them to prevent them from responding. Upon proof from the blocked user, we will remove the last comment from the user who blocked. Repeated incidents of this behavior may result in a ban.

Community Wellbeing & Belonging

Content or behaviour that undermines discussion quality, community cohesion, or meaningful participation may be removed, even if it does not explicitly break other rules. This includes (but is not limited to) low-effort content, trolling, bad-faith engagement, off-topic agendas, subtle hostility, and disruptive patterns of behaviour.