From where do anti-choicers derive their perceived right to control every woman's reproductive life?

Question

Indeed it does, Scott. I'm adding you to my contacts so that you can look at my question about the death penalty if you want :)

Answer 1

You know, I don't get that either. If Christians believe in free will, shouldn't they let people make their own choices?

Abortion is a moral debate, not a political one.

Answer 2

Who's controlling women's reproductive lives? Where are you getting your information?

I don't belive a child should be sentenced to death before it has a chance to live. But voicing that opinion is no different from anyone who feels differently and says so.

To sound like some of the Atheists for a change, I would like some evidence of this 'control' you refer to, because I haven't heard anything about it.

God bless you.

Scott M--I don't know what you are referring to either. My husband's property? This is the first I have ever heard such a thing. Some reference to the society and mindset that was in place during (OT) Biblical times, and still exists in parts of the world has nothing to do with those who have accepted Christ their Lord and Savior.

I am not now, never was, and never will be my husband's property. And I haven't been told that I am or should be either.

I reiterate, where is this info coming from?

To discuss the Bible or any book knowlegeably, you have to read the entire thing. Not pick a line, verse, passage or book and run with it. Speculation is obvious when you don't know the material. The same is true for discussing the beliefs or activities of a group of people.

ruby peacock--Our children are not my husband's property either. What country and century is this?

Answer 3

The strange thing is, while these terrorists are attacking women who feel desperate enough to abort their babies due to their circumstances, and are trying to rob them of the right to control their own bodies & lives, nowhere do I see legions of protesters standing outside the doors of men who impregnate women one after the other, then abandon them with no conscience or intention of offering any support or help.
It takes two people to make a baby. I hazard that it's much harder for a woman to go through an abortion, than for the majority of men to know their one night stand has aborted a child the guy didn't want, as it would cost him money & limit his social life.
These idiots need to get some perspective, and start living in the real world. They make no effort to find out the personal stories of each of the women that have abortions, and make no effort to help or support the women that may change their minds should they be made to feel that they do actually have the help they would need to deliver the baby.
Bottom line - the pro-lifers put their own right of protest above the rights of everyone they don't approve of and they don't care in the slightest who pays for their "freedom" of expression.

Answer 4

I view it like this.....we can all choose to go to a bar and get sloshed. We can choose to drive afterwards. But when you run over someone and kill them, you're accountable for your actions. You didn't plan to kill someone that night, but you still get charged with murder.
Everyone screws up in life.....some of us get lucky other don't......but when you're not....you're accountable for your actions.

Why is it different then in abortion. Some girl decides she doesn't find it necessary for the guy to wear protection....or herself use some sort...she obviously isn't planning to have a baby...but she knows penis into vagina = baby....then she finds out she's pregnant....and waits a few months....then goes and has the child killed.

Maybe because i was a science geek, but i knew by the age of 10 how babies are made.....i really can't image someone not knowing any of this though by the time they are old enough to have sex.

Thats where i perceive my right to control what other women due.


I don't view the word "abortion" being a possibility in terms of rape or the women's life is in danger.

Answer 5

It's a kind of do as I say, not as I do situation. In high school a friend's mother was a major anti-choice person (she was Catholic). However, when my friend got pregnant, her mother couldn't get her to the abortion clinic fast enough. Perhaps not all of them are this way, but I've heard of other situations like this.

Answer 6

It is all about property, ownership. Do women own themselves or are they the property of their menfolk? Anti-abortion-ers believe that babies are the property of their fathers, and so are the babies' mothers. Also women and children are considered the property of the community as a whole, meaning the family and church, headed by the patriarchs of families. Females are just livestock used for the purpose of creating men, donchaknow.

Answer 7

What exactly do you define as "every woman's reproductive life"?

Is that what you are calling that thing with different human DNA that is attached to her?

You are calling that "her life"?

It is clear that something that is alive of its own accord with different DNA is not her body, not her life, not her choice.

Does she have the right to kill it because it gets food and shelter from her? As long as it can't live without her care she can off it? So you would approve of infanticide?

You can't win this argument.

Answer 8

They justify it with the same sort of institutionalized misogyny the Bible advocates: That women are just the property of the husband.

The "sanctity of life" is a pretty argument...but I've noticed it gets tossed by the roadside whenever it gets inconvienent.

Answer 9

As far as I can tell, the woman loses all rights to her own body when another "life" inhabits it, and most right-to-lifers define "life" as "starting at conception".

Answer 10

Pro life is not pro-enslavement of women no matter who tells you that.