@QasimRashid

One of the truly sick things I encountered while working on my dissertation was a traditionalist conservative notion that women were needed to control men's worst impulses. The implication was clear: The only way to prevent rape was for a man to have a sexually available wife.

Traditionalist conservatives, largely aligned with conservative Roman Catholics, are also among the most strident opponents of divorce, abortion rights, contraception, and, of course, homosexuality and transgenderism. Sex, for these folks, is only tolerable when potentially procreative. I judged traditionalists to be the greatest threat to women of the seven tendencies of conservatism I identified.

It is truly ironic that the anti-abortion movement can now be said to empower rapists.

@QasimRashid Erm, it's also worth pointing out that women, who've been at the sharp end of this body slavery crap, have been pointing this out since the 1970s.

i.e. just after birth control pills became common. Just after forced pregnancy might stop being a thing. When the patriarchy was panicking.

Abortion was not a big deal before that (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal/) because control of women was easier before the pill.

So, yes, it's always been obvious what the forced pregnancy crowd wants.

@QasimRashid
It is never about *control* (over women).

Control would imply defining a desired state, deliberately adjusting controls, constantly checking for course derivations, dampening overcompensation - lots of work.

It just is about plain, lazy, selfish dominion.