(May 28, 2014 at 1:39 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote:(May 25, 2014 at 12:32 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: It's claimed that the pro-life movement really exists because pro-lifers don't want women to be equals with men. Being anti-abortion in other words is one major way they can bolster traditional patriarchy. If that's the case, then why are so many pro-lifers women? From my experience, the most vocal (and annoying) pro-lifers are women. Are these women wanting to limit their own freedom? Are they wanting to be subservient to men? Why?
Women can have traditional sexual attitudes too.
two-thirds of pro-lifers believed that promiscuity was immoral, and an even higher proportion of pro-life women:
This might be outdated, but the NHSLS found that sexual-moral attitudes broke down into 7 clusters, two of which mostly rejected the statement "A woman should be able to obtain a legal abortion if she wants it for any reason." The two clusters were the Pro-Life subgroup of Recrational, and the Conservative subgroup of Traditional. Overall, the former believed premarital sex was okay, and the latter overwhelmingly believed that premarital sex was "always wrong". 8.7% of respondents belonged to the former, and 15.2% belonged to the latter. That's roughly a 1:2 ratio. Furthermore, women were more likely than men to belong to one of the Traditional clusters. In other words, more than two-thirds of pro-life women held traditional views on sexual morality.
This is why I say the so-called "pro-life" movement is really anti-sex. If the pro-lifers were honest, they are less concerned about a fetus and more about making a woman "take responsibility for her actions".
The pretext is exposed when a pro-lifer would "allow" abortion in the case of rape. Really? You really believe the fetus is a living being with a right to life that you and I have, but it's OK to suspend that right if the conception was during a rape? Isn't that punishing the child for the crimes of the father? You think that's OK?
However, if the motive is slut-shaming and punishing the Jezebel, then the exception for rape makes sense, at least to pro-lifers who are progressive enough to realize that the rape isn't her fault.
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