Reply #5: Actually, it's simpler than that. No abortion (and, when they get

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down to their final objective, no birth control either) has been the classic way to control the female half of the population. I don't know how old you are, but it is within my living memory that women were discharged from their jobs (if they even had one) when they became pregnant. If you were pregnant and unmarried, you were secretly sent off to a home for unwed mothers to have your baby and then have it forcibly adopted out.

Republicans/fundamentalists all believe in the hierarchical family with the man as the head, the woman as the "helpmeet"(also known as the slave who takes orders), and the kids. They know instinctively that in order for most males to submit to any kind of god, they have to give that man someone for whom (in theory) he can make the rules and of whom he can demand things. In other words, women are there to be the chattel so that these men can feel powerful and have power over at least one other human being. This satisfies their lust for domination, and that's what most of these men want, in the end.