posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 04:47pm on 2008-07-22
It's really quite simple. They don't believe that people own their own bodies, so therefore they feel justified in forcing women to continue pregnancies they don't want. The whole "murder" thing is a dodge -- you ask most forced-birthers how much time they think the woman should do, and they'll fumfuh at you; the only responsible person, to their minds (because he's the only person, natch) is the presumably-male "abortionist." (That's incidentally also why they continually conflate rape with sex; they don't believe in bodily autonomy, so "consent" is meaningless.)

The paradigm is as follows:

Men's bodies are owned by God, and then the state.
Women's bodies are owned by men, and secondarily by God, then the state.
Children's bodies are owned by men, God, the state, and women.

It's the only way an anti-abortion, pro-war, pro-execution, pro-conscription, antifeminist, pro-slavery mindset makes sense.

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