Johns Hopkins reports that Texas abortion ban led to 216 additional infant deaths in 2022
Journal of American Medical Ass’n reports in the 14 states that banned abortion 134 women are impregnated by rape Daily
Northwestern reports that maternal mortality has doubled & rapidly increasing post Roe
Every medical & academic institution reports that banning abortion is killing women & babies while empowering rapists—yet GOP doubles down
It was never about life—it was always about control of women
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.
@benfell @QasimRashid Gotta love the logic of paternalists: we must sacrifice women’s safety for the sake of men’s stability in order to protect women’s safety.
Oh and men are superior because they’re more rational. Uh huh.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
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