A popular pro-abort trope is that men who oppose abortion want to control women's bodies. That's a truly mindless trope (which can be said for pro-abort tropes generally).
Promiscuous men are primary beneficiaries of abortion. Many men prefer to have sex with no strings attached. They don't want to get stuck with a kid to raise or child support payments.
In that respect, men who oppose abortion are acting against their self-interest. So men who oppose abortion ought to be commended for acting responsibly, at the expense of their self-interest. It's praiseworthy to support a policy because it's the right thing to do despite the fact that the policy cuts against the grain of your personal preference and freedom from accountability.
As far as women go, normal women want to have kids. Normal women want to nurture and care for children. I've seen it as early as in little girls in the way they play with stuffed animals or dolls, hug their dolls, feed their dolls, and so on. I assume it takes a seared conscience for a woman to suppress the maternal instinct and actively argue to "terminate" her pregnancy.*
ReplyDelete* I'm not referring to deceived women, women who are under inordinate compulsion, or the like, but I'm referring to women who are under no pressure and who should know better but still choose to abort their child.
I've always found this mind-numbing trope to be particularly contrived and utterly boring. That blasted patriachy.
ReplyDeleteSo what about women who oppose abortion? Polls consistently show that the percentage of men and women who are anti-abortion hovers around the same level (whether it be an absolutist or majority case position). So what's *their* angle? Brainwashed by the patriarchy? Too old-fashioned and unelightened? Not feminist enough? The sisterhood is not exactly in step on this issue.
Could it be that both men and women understand well the science of embryology and they value the sanctity of human life? A genuine concern for human life. What a radical thought. Such a thought can never be entertained by these people. It's too real. It forces one to actually think, and thinking might awaken the conscience.
Anyone else noticed the narrative shift? It used to be the religious (usually Christians) who got the 'blame' for 'wanting to control women's bodies' (they still do to an extent), but given the considerable rise of liberal Christianity (contradiction) and its acceptance of abortion, the focus of the swivel-eyed feminists (both female and male) had to shift. Yet still they cannot find a viable target, for here the dividing line has never been religious vs. non-religious people, or men vs. women, or even tall vs. short people. It has been and will always be light vs. dark, right vs. wrong, uncorrupted vs. corrupted reason.