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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIT'S REPRODUCTIVE SLAVERY
Enforced childbirth is slavery: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortionThe US supreme court draft ruling on abortion is an assault on fundamental individual freedoms. The Handmaids Tale author reflects on the issues at stake
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/07/enforced-childbirth-is-slavery-margaret-atwood-on-the-right-to-abortion
Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding
The pursuit of reproductive freedom and civil freedom need to be seen as one and the same.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding/
secondwind
(16,903 posts)when it comes to abortion... Am sick and tired of this crap.
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)It is control, plain and simple. But honestly that is what Religion is.
And to think they are controlled by a rapist,adulterer , the most non religious person on earth.
certainot
(9,090 posts)the root of all sexual repression is to reduce real sex to increase masturbation, which by default, is usually right handed, which is connected to the left brain hemisphere.
the sex on the wrong brain theory suggests right vs left handed masturbation makes a difference and those differences that aided survival in rough times are why humans went from about 50/50 when we were more like chimps and apes to 90/10 right handed now. not just authoritarian tendencies but greed. it got worse in the last few thousand years and our civilizations built our religions and societies around and selected for sex on the wrong brain-induced fear, bigotry, suspicion, close-mindedness, stupidity, sheepishness, etc. caused by mixing impatient satisfaction-demanding sexual urges with thinking process that are supposed to be patient and objective, like logic, judgement, calculation, etc. sex and logic makes certainty. sex and math makes greed etc. and even though 99.9% of human evolution we evolved in small groups surrounded by uncertainty, now authoritarians will do just about anything to reduce, control, and destroy it.
in Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1933, Whilhelm Reich mentioned masturbation numerous times in association with paternalism, punishment, guilt, and religion, trying to understand the appeal of nazism to youth, writing that it wasn't until they reached that age that they began to believe in a god.....
what he was missing was the link between that and modern psych, which sometimes measures authoritarianism with the 'Uncertainty Avoidance Index', or UAI. the "God" authoritarians need and worship is certainty, which leaders like trump, putin, hitler have to exude, whether or not they are insane enough to actually be able to internally rationalize that they are always right about everything.
and so the koran actually leaves it in the book - "man can only have sex with his wife and that which the right hand possesses". the taliban, nazis, proud boys etc, are masturbation cults, and females are inferior because due to anatomical and mechanical differences they are generally more likely to use the left or both hands so they generally have less sowb, and like the decendents of humans populations that were still not 'civilized' until recently, have a greater tolerance of uncertainty.
hah, something like that.....
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)Both Sunday shows had Tate Reeves on blaming Democrats for this mess! Some law that was passed in 1931.
I hate to admit it, the year I was born! Go ahead and count while I wait!
kjones
(1,053 posts)Rebl2
(13,575 posts)I will probably get push back but, Catholic hospitals are bad about this.
Novara
(5,857 posts)...where women do not have rights.
Just wait until they impose restrictions on pregnant women, like they can't work past the first month of pregnancy slavery, or something as onerous. You think they won't do it? Think again.
We need to call it that, and very loudly: PREGNANCY SLAVERY.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)The control of women in both is real. Some of the control has backed down but it is still there and being turned up again.
When I was a boy my sisters and mother had to have a head covering in church. This was only 50 years ago. Many women wore veils. Male only alter boys.
Rape, sexual slavery, and related actions including forced pregnancy and sexual slavery, are recognized under the Geneva Convention as crimes against humanity.
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)But many real Christians do not think that way. Only the control freaks. Wouldnt you love to be marries to some one like that.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)"Honey, where's my coffee?"
soldierant
(6,938 posts)(and should now cite) the 13th Amendment along with the 14th on this issue.
OMGWTF
(3,980 posts)Domestic infant supply. What they mean is most abortions are done on white women and they need more white babies to retain the majority. Creepy AF.