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nwhikerContent warning, it's pretty explicit, pro-abortion, and crude at times.
Despite their wails about the baybeeees! the pro-forced birth folks don't care about babies. If they did, they'd be working to implement programs to help women have babies in a healthy manner, be able to take some time off to heal, bond, breastfeed etc, and then find high quality childcare, as well as ensure that the baybees always have enough food, get a good education etc. They don't do any of that.
Nothing is too extreme to protect the baybees! charging women with murder if they terminate a pregnancy, allowed random people to snitch on then, forcing them to give birth, bombing places women get abortions (and other health care), killing doctors who perform said abortions. Anything for the baybeee!
As soon as the baybeeee! is born anything it needs is too extreme. Paid maternal leaves. Subsidized childcare. Decent school... heck, school lunches. There is no love for the born baybeee!, only for the fetus it once was.
Having established that...
It's about controlling women, of course. When a woman can control her reproduction, she essentially loses control of her life trajectory, when a rape can derail everything, an unplanned pregnancy keep her from fulfilling her dreams and living to her full potential. Women are forced to live a life of no mistakes.
Note that I don't see the same thing for men. When a man gets someone pregnant and has to pay child support, the themes are often that 1. he's a good man, to pay child support 2. it was her fault, she should have used birth control/better birth control 3. there is often a sense that one mistake, one tiny episode of penis ejaculating in a vagina, should not result in this poor man having to send SO MUCH MONEY to support the baby. After all, the mother was at least as responsible. IOW, generally, women get condemnation, men get sympathy. (I am no doubt seeing a dynamic that may be reserved to/for white men, btw. I expect black men get some level of condemnation, though not as much as women, and black women get the most condemnation of all, of course.) Anyhow, for a man, it was just one mistake, poor guy, vs well, she should have--
So yeah. Controlling women and ensuring that any mistake or misstep or episode of abuse can have profound life altering consequences.
The argument is that once an embryo is present, it's no longer just her body, the woman's body belongs to the embryo, no matter the age of said embryo, or the desires of the woman carrying it.
With the pushing back of the "ok to have an abortion" timeline, we're getting to the point where as soon as the penis has ejaculated, abortion is no longer allowed.
Part of the message is the fetishization of virginity. The idea is that only a woman who has not had a penis inside of her is worthy of self-determination, to a small degree. Once the almighty penis has penetrated her, it's all over for the woman, she loses any worth she might have had, and her value plummets to less than that of a 256-cell blastocyst.
There has long been a fetishization of virginity, it's clearly nothing new. This is just another facet of it, I think.
Despite their wails about the baybeeees! the pro-forced birth folks don't care about babies. If they did, they'd be working to implement programs to help women have babies in a healthy manner, be able to take some time off to heal, bond, breastfeed etc, and then find high quality childcare, as well as ensure that the baybees always have enough food, get a good education etc. They don't do any of that.
Nothing is too extreme to protect the baybees! charging women with murder if they terminate a pregnancy, allowed random people to snitch on then, forcing them to give birth, bombing places women get abortions (and other health care), killing doctors who perform said abortions. Anything for the baybeee!
As soon as the baybeeee! is born anything it needs is too extreme. Paid maternal leaves. Subsidized childcare. Decent school... heck, school lunches. There is no love for the born baybeee!, only for the fetus it once was.
Having established that...
It's about controlling women, of course. When a woman can control her reproduction, she essentially loses control of her life trajectory, when a rape can derail everything, an unplanned pregnancy keep her from fulfilling her dreams and living to her full potential. Women are forced to live a life of no mistakes.
Note that I don't see the same thing for men. When a man gets someone pregnant and has to pay child support, the themes are often that 1. he's a good man, to pay child support 2. it was her fault, she should have used birth control/better birth control 3. there is often a sense that one mistake, one tiny episode of penis ejaculating in a vagina, should not result in this poor man having to send SO MUCH MONEY to support the baby. After all, the mother was at least as responsible. IOW, generally, women get condemnation, men get sympathy. (I am no doubt seeing a dynamic that may be reserved to/for white men, btw. I expect black men get some level of condemnation, though not as much as women, and black women get the most condemnation of all, of course.) Anyhow, for a man, it was just one mistake, poor guy, vs well, she should have--
So yeah. Controlling women and ensuring that any mistake or misstep or episode of abuse can have profound life altering consequences.
The argument is that once an embryo is present, it's no longer just her body, the woman's body belongs to the embryo, no matter the age of said embryo, or the desires of the woman carrying it.
With the pushing back of the "ok to have an abortion" timeline, we're getting to the point where as soon as the penis has ejaculated, abortion is no longer allowed.
Part of the message is the fetishization of virginity. The idea is that only a woman who has not had a penis inside of her is worthy of self-determination, to a small degree. Once the almighty penis has penetrated her, it's all over for the woman, she loses any worth she might have had, and her value plummets to less than that of a 256-cell blastocyst.
There has long been a fetishization of virginity, it's clearly nothing new. This is just another facet of it, I think.
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