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Originally Posted by Scucca  I don't think anyone would argue that all pro-lifers are uneducated. There clearly are multiple factors behind anti-abortion attitudes (e.g. see the empirical analysis by Driedger, 1997, Pro life or pro choice: Politics of career and homemaking, Population Studies, Vol 51). However, the argument that female education is a dominate factor is difficult to dismiss. |
Well with the stay home or work issue I think you'll find loads of women getting highly educated and then opting to stay home anyway. It's a trend that makes the more ultra feminist lot hysterical. As far as the prochoice or prolife issue we're a prochoice culture. Most of the adults today were raised in a climate where it takes some nerve to suggest a women ought not kill her own baby. If fact our prochoiceyness is so ingrained the argument has now become,
there is no baby.
Basically people are sheep and most idle along quite nicely with whatever mainstream culture dictates. So folks are gonna feel most comfortable on the prochoice side of the fence. They're especially gonna feel that way if they believe they're
expected to feel that way and anything else is treacherous.
Since religious whackos tend to be so far out there anyway it makes sense that they'd be the most vocal lot shunning mainstream culture. Maybe they're stupid and uneducated or maybe they're just nuts but
most likely and most probably they were raised in a very different climate, a climate isolated from the mainstream. There's not much to be done about that. The public schools do all they can to try to teach us all to march to the beat of the same drum but there will always be those who refuse to cooperate. That too is choice.