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Originally Posted by OKgrannie  Chemically or surgically controlling childbirth is giving women the power to control their lives. |
This attitude makes women REACTORS to life--not people in CONTROL of their destiny. The life choices people make demonstrate their competence. When you insist that there MUST be a means to eradicate the consequences of poor choices, you do not "empower" women with anything but an EXCUSE to be incompetent and a means to hide their incompetence. By your insistence that these ready-made excuses
must be available, you insult the integrity of women and say, with your drugs and procedures, women do NOT have the competence to forge their destinies as they deem appropriate. You undermine the competence of women by convincing them that the exact opposite is what you offer with your drugs and procedures and they hear your siren song of the "free-pass" on responsibility. Responsibility DEMONSTRATES competence--Irresponsibility demonstrates Incompetence. You, in fact, are the one promoting a misogynistic view of women and their abilities.
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Denying women that choice is denying them their own lives in order that they reproduce. Denying women that choice is denying them the ability to protect their own health. Denying women that choice is reducing them to the status of cattle, whose primary purpose in living is to reproduce.
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Right here is an example of how your thinking has been warped by the misogynistic message of BC and abortion. You equate childbirth to burden and detrimental to health. You equate women to cows. That is misogyny. Childbearing is a unique and awesome ability that belongs to women alone. Your characterizing it as something that subjugates women to a life of herd animals is disgusting. No WONDER people think abortion and contraception are the panacea when such insulting lies are spewed—most frequently by women themselves! It is self-hatred and misogyny that produce such rhetoric and place women at the mercy of irresponsible choices. They are lulled into incompetence through anti-woman propaganda. The position held by many men and woman as a result of this propaganda is that sex does not need to be ruled by rational thought and responsible behavior—the message is that it is all about immediate gratification and individual passions. That is a warped view of the depth of meaning that is contained in the act of sexual union. That view OBJECTIFIES the partners and makes them a means to an end—selfish pleasure. This irresponsible sexual behavior then leads to the unintended consequence of the creation of new life. BUT, since people have already been reduced to OBJECTS by separating rational though and responsibility from the sex act, it is not much of a further step to objectify the product of such a union. When the product of such a union is merely an unwanted OBJECT—of course killing it with the abortion procedure seems entirely consistent with the warped and demeaning view of women and sex.
In your position, you demonstrate a hatred of women, sex, and children.