The anti-abortion crusade (because that’s what it is: a pre-modern overtly violent Christian campaign to conquer The Others™) is a vestigial throwback to ancient Roman policy of “partus sequitur ventrem” which became English common law, and the American colonies adapted it to weaponize sexual violence against people who were considered property (i.e. chattel slaves).
@paninid@histodons I was horrified when seeing a clip of that debate of abysmal humans. I realized they don't want to reduce the need to abort (sex-ed, access to contraception, access to life-saving health care for women), they want girls and women pregnant and forced to deliver or die for a baby market.
@paninid@CStamp@histodons No we are not.
Societies might be on a bad direction in some regards, especially in terms of growing digital surveillance, but claiming that our current reality would be in any way close to those dystopian books is bogus.
This is feeding into the alt-right narratives that we see being floated by groups like the "Querdenker" in Germany and is in general not helpful.
@CStamp@paninid@histodons Or they want women removed from the job market and forced to stay at home, financially dependent on their husbands. (Or both.)
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