Still no answer to this?? |
Is an answer from one of the forced birthers going to change anything? At its heart the forced birther answer is essentially that women don’t matter. If one dies here or there it doesn’t matter to them. |
The casual forced birther needs to understand that those "life of the mother" exceptions are meaningless in actual practice. The die-hard ones know exactly what they're doing. |
PP you’re replying to and my guess about the “die-est hard” forced birthers is that they are essentially going for a touch of eugenics here, too. If a woman can’t birth easily, let her be culled. I’m willing to have my mind changed on this, but it seems pretty clear to me that the Stephen Miller equivalents in the forced birther movement are probably happy for women to die. |
I don't know if cruelty is the point as people keep saying. I think they believe a few thousand dead women is a fair exchange for all of those saved fetuses. |
Dp- your equation is close but off. A few thousand dead woman is a fair exchange to punish imaginary sluts. They don’t actually care about the fetuses. If they did, they wouldn’t consider them punishment. |
well it's not even working because abortions are up, since the rs have go whole hog on banning them. i don't know why, but not hard to think of at least some of this being in response. |
If you’re on the fence about keeping a pregnancy, knowing that if your life is in danger later and there will be no help has probably pushed many women into the “abort” column. |
oops. this would be an unintended consequences situation created by Rs. |
No, because the honest answer to this is that abortion and the circumstances surrounding why someone has one are complicated. And if "pro-lifers" acknowledge the complexity then they will have to travel down the logic path and admit that keeping or terminating a pregnancy is a decision best left to the woman. Or if they stick to their guns and have to admit that they would truly like to see a woman close to death before she can terminate her pregnancy because they are "pro-life" they know that the vast majority of people would be horrified. But the actual answer is that they believe the fetus' life is equal to the woman's and should only be terminated if not doing so will result in the death of the woman. |
Nope. They don’t believe the fetus is equal to the woman. Many believe it is more valuable. If the woman was a good mother, she would be willing to die for her “baby”. These are people that hate women so deeply, they aren’t even aware of it. |
Where do you consider the line for "life of the mother"? In Idaho it’s never. Their abortion ban doesn’t even include the procedure to save life of mother. If Dr. intervene it’s to save the fetus. |
I think they’re well aware of it but they think that’s the way it should be. And I think at the heart of the misogyny in this specific part is the fact that many men think that pregnancy is theirs. They put it there, it belongs to them, it’s their property, as is the woman brooding it, typified by the kind of guy like Rusty Yates. His wife was completely irrelevant to him, she was nothing but a uterus to him. Do I think all those men show it so easily? No. I think Yates was a kind of sociopath. But I do think that’s the worldview of a lot of these forced birther men, and their religion has told them this from birth, that they’re princes and deserve to run their own kingdoms. |
+1 this is what we are up against. Straight up misogyny. |