ok...different angle.
It's making people talk about it. The women I know are becoming obesessed with this "war on women" and are now following what the politicians are doing and spreading the word.
And it absolutely is a war on women.
We like conspiracy theories around here right? Take a look around the entertainment world and look at what they're showing us.
There's a subtle movement to go back to before the feminist movement. The most obvious is Mad Men. Do you know how many girls now think that it's ok for men to treat women the way they do on that show? They are actually emulating the women. It's slight, it's subtle, but it's happening.
Take the subtle brainwashing and combine it with all the stupid bills trying to be passed - and just listen to people. People are starting to say that if women would never have entered the workplace, there'd be jobs for all the unemployed men and the divorce rate would never have reached as high.
There's a very clear trend to roll back the clock 50 years. They are starting to blame women for all the ills of society.
...and that's just beginning of the rabbit hole.
Quoting: Copernica I appreciate your even keel, Copernica. I can hardly believe the level of misogyny/ignorance on this site, and in some parts of the government/country, that I have to control my defensiveness.
It is a slippery-slope to agree with the government legislating a woman's health. How can people who agree with the government even entering into these issues, to limit abortions, making this abortion legal, that one not legal, ...how can they not see where that would lead, especially in this dark time when our human rights are being chipped away at, at an alarming rate? The next time, the government's agenda to control may affect YOU --- RFID anyone?
Even though I am one who believes strongly that life begins when a
soul enters a VIABLE body (that is, near the end of a pregnancy term), I agree that abortion is not ideal. However, it must be an option, as long as we continue to
--have juvenile attitudes in this country about sex (Not even being able to talk to one's own children about sex is absurd!),
--continue to keep our heads in the sand that EVERYONE is indeed HAVING sex, especially young people;
--continue to not offer birth control resources without shame,
--judge young women who become pregnant
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As far as your comment that women are starting to pay attention to the restrictions coming down from the legislature, I do hope you are right. Many Christian women have
of course had abortions throughout the ages, as a form of birth control.
They indeed need to start speaking the truth, instead of enduring shame and silence because of the ridiculously untenable proscriptions of the patriarchal religions.
