How many "pro-life" people Really are just about controlling women?

Question

And their talk about saving the precious unborn babies is their excuse to try to violate reproductive rights and put down women?

Answer 1

I am PRO-LIFE and I don't think it's about controlling women. How can you even say it like that? It is ONLY to protect and save lives of precious unborn babies. What makes you think you can take someone's life? It's not your choice to make. Every child has a reason why they where concieved. What if your parents decided to abort you?

Answer 2

I have always seen abortion as an issue which transcends sex, but rather a matter for the whole species. The fact that the issue of abortion even exists is depressing.

I think women should have the right to control their own body, however, I don't think that means that the life of a potential child should be forfeited in the process. Your logic is also skewed by the fact that the pro-life movement is not exclusively men, but also women.

Perhaps some people masquerading as being pro-life really do just want to control and oppress women, but I highly doubt that's the majority, nor should they be considered the exemplar.

Answer 3

maybe a few (VERY, very FEW) guys think that no woman would voluntarily want to have a baby for him. maybe they fear that the pregnant woman would not want the baby because it's his. and so that forcing her is the only way he would have a child. which would be very sad indeed!
or maybe it's a feeling that he has no way to prevent someone else from killing his child ( like seeing your child sitting in the middle of a busy road and has to only 'hope' that the driver of the truck coming at the child will choose to not hit the child) still sad but more understandable. i can sympathize. I'm glad to be female and the ability to stop the 'truck' is mine. but then if he has control then i can't stop the 'truck'. could he now drive the ''truck' and force an abortion...seems like if a woman has the 'right' to keep or abort the baby then if a man is given that 'right' could he then force a woman to keep the child OR force the woman to abort the child. maybe the very thing the pro- life people are fighting for would /could actually cause more? no easy answers. oh boy what a sticky situation!

Answer 4

Some, but not most.

I'm pro-choice in a legal sense, pro-life in a personal sense. I don't agree that abortion should be made illegal, but it troubles me beyond belief, and if a close family member ever did it, I would probably always be saddened by it.

Interesting to note that many of the activists on the "pro-life" side are actually women, too. I've known some of them, and I don't really see eye-to-eye with them at all about much of anything, including abortion. But I think they're sincere in their beliefs.

Answer 5

The way you can tell if someone is genuinely anti-abortion or is only interested in controlling women is to listen to what they say. Those who want to control women also want to take away contraceptives and any information about sex education except for abstinence. They also believe that forcing women to have unwanted children is a way of punishing them for having sex. Another way you can tell is how quickly they lose interest in the child once it's born and then are the first to complain about how their tax dollars are being wasted on social programs intended to help these children out of poverty and away from a life of crime and drugs.

Answer 6

Do you really think giving birth is oppressive and a put-down to women?

Men and women are both split on the issue, so it seems like an issue that is much more complex than simply being about gender. It's mostly religious, but not even completely religious. There are many aetheists against abortion, as well.

Answer 7

I am pro-life and a woman.
My stance comes from the fact that we, as reasonable beings, ought to be able to CONTROL OURSELVES.

If you do not want a baby, do not get pregnant, it is so simple.

I am embarrassed to be part of a sex, that claims they can not be held responsible for their actions; really, when abortion is "the only option" (tear), that is just a woman being lazy, irresponsible, and out of control. DOES SEX DICTATE THEIR LIVES, I just do not understand...

Not to mention if a man got a woman pregnant, and she kept the child, he is REQUIRED to take care, at the very least economically, of the child; how is that CONTROL any different?

Answer 8

Ask them if they are willing to adopt and change the diapers and go to parent teacher conferences for those precious unborn babies. If they say that that is the woman's responsibility, perhaps they are only interested in controlling women. If they say they want to adopt the babies, maybe they just want the women to be baby making machines. But they all probably have their individual opinions and feelings.

Answer 9

How many "pro-choice" people really are just about controlling other things that are related to the issue of abortion? Such as human life and morality?

Listen, as a pro-lifer I must say that being pro-life in no way is about putting down women. In fact, I would even venture to say that choosing life over convenience (I am OK with abortion in the case of the mother being at risk of dying from carrying the baby to delivery) uplifts everyone, for it gives the unborn babies a chance to live the lives they rightfully deserve.

I think we all subconsciously understand that human life is very precious.

Also, in my case I object to abortion for religious reasons also. If society were in a better situation abortions would not even be considered - women wouldn't be raped, people would be educated about contraceptives, etc.

Answer 10

http://abortionhurtswomen.com

A site about feminists who are against abortion. I am not fully knowledgeable about their stance, but I think it is basically, "what kind of world do we live in if women feel that they would be better off "terminating their pregnancy" than having their child?"

And in that sense, I agree. Most women feel coerced into having an abortion, or have one because they feel pregnancy would lead them into the poverty that often accompanies single-motherhood (although they could put their child up for adoption but whatever that is beside the point) and that is wrong. What kind of society do we live in that women feel pressured to kill a child so that they can have stability?