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CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
Sun May 8, 2022, 05:52 AM May 2022

IT'S REPRODUCTIVE SLAVERY

‘Enforced childbirth is slavery’: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion
The US supreme court draft ruling on abortion is an assault on fundamental individual freedoms. The Handmaid’s Tale author reflects on the issues at stake
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/07/enforced-childbirth-is-slavery-margaret-atwood-on-the-right-to-abortion


Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding
The pursuit of reproductive freedom and civil freedom need to be seen as one and the same.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding/
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IT'S REPRODUCTIVE SLAVERY (Original Post) CousinIT May 2022 OP
I also think that they are imposing their religious beliefs on others..... secondwind May 2022 #1
It isn't even Religion. True Blue American May 2022 #3
the secret of authoritarian power, whether they know it or not, is right handed masturbation. the certainot May 2022 #9
That was funny! I needed that! True Blue American May 2022 #10
That's a lot of woo, what's it supposed to mean? kjones May 2022 #15
Most definitely Rebl2 May 2022 #4
It's one step closer to a theocracy... Novara May 2022 #2
The comparison of Christianity to the Muslim religion is fair. The Jungle 1 May 2022 #7
Same thing to some. True Blue American May 2022 #11
I agree, Americans who practice Christ's teachings do benefit. The Jungle 1 May 2022 #14
Happy wife, happy life bucolic_frolic May 2022 #5
I (and a few others) have been saying we should have cited soldierant May 2022 #6
The draft memo mentions the OMGWTF May 2022 #8
Back to slavery for women! True Blue American May 2022 #12
1860. roamer65 May 2022 #13

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
1. I also think that they are imposing their religious beliefs on others.....
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:11 AM
May 2022

when it comes to abortion... Am sick and tired of this crap.

True Blue American

(17,986 posts)
3. It isn't even Religion.
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:39 AM
May 2022

It is control, plain and simple. But honestly that is what Religion is.

And to think they are controlled by a rapist,adulterer , the most non religious person on earth.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
9. the secret of authoritarian power, whether they know it or not, is right handed masturbation. the
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:50 AM
May 2022

the root of all sexual repression is to reduce real sex to increase masturbation, which by default, is usually right handed, which is connected to the left brain hemisphere.

the sex on the wrong brain theory suggests right vs left handed masturbation makes a difference and those differences that aided survival in rough times are why humans went from about 50/50 when we were more like chimps and apes to 90/10 right handed now. not just authoritarian tendencies but greed. it got worse in the last few thousand years and our civilizations built our religions and societies around and selected for sex on the wrong brain-induced fear, bigotry, suspicion, close-mindedness, stupidity, sheepishness, etc. caused by mixing impatient satisfaction-demanding sexual urges with thinking process that are supposed to be patient and objective, like logic, judgement, calculation, etc. sex and logic makes certainty. sex and math makes greed etc. and even though 99.9% of human evolution we evolved in small groups surrounded by uncertainty, now authoritarians will do just about anything to reduce, control, and destroy it.

in “Mass Psychology of Fascism”, 1933, Whilhelm Reich mentioned ‘masturbation’ numerous times in association with paternalism, punishment, guilt, and religion, trying to understand the appeal of nazism to youth, writing that it wasn't until they reached that age that they began to believe in a god.....

what he was missing was the link between that and modern psych, which sometimes measures authoritarianism with the 'Uncertainty Avoidance Index', or UAI. the "God" authoritarians need and worship is certainty, which leaders like trump, putin, hitler have to exude, whether or not they are insane enough to actually be able to internally rationalize that they are always right about everything.

and so the koran actually leaves it in the book - "man can only have sex with his wife and that which the right hand possesses". the taliban, nazis, proud boys etc, are masturbation cults, and females are inferior because due to anatomical and mechanical differences they are generally more likely to use the left or both hands so they generally have less sowb, and like the decendents of humans populations that were still not 'civilized' until recently, have a greater tolerance of uncertainty.

hah, something like that.....

True Blue American

(17,986 posts)
10. That was funny! I needed that!
Sun May 8, 2022, 09:39 AM
May 2022

Both Sunday shows had Tate Reeves on blaming Democrats for this mess! Some law that was passed in 1931.

I hate to admit it, the year I was born! Go ahead and count while I wait!

Novara

(5,844 posts)
2. It's one step closer to a theocracy...
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:15 AM
May 2022

...where women do not have rights.

Just wait until they impose restrictions on pregnant women, like they can't work past the first month of pregnancy slavery, or something as onerous. You think they won't do it? Think again.

We need to call it that, and very loudly: PREGNANCY SLAVERY.

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
7. The comparison of Christianity to the Muslim religion is fair.
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:30 AM
May 2022

The control of women in both is real. Some of the control has backed down but it is still there and being turned up again.
When I was a boy my sisters and mother had to have a head covering in church. This was only 50 years ago. Many women wore veils. Male only alter boys.

Rape, sexual slavery, and related actions including forced pregnancy and sexual slavery, are recognized under the Geneva Convention as crimes against humanity.

True Blue American

(17,986 posts)
11. Same thing to some.
Sun May 8, 2022, 09:42 AM
May 2022

But many real Christians do not think that way. Only the control freaks. Wouldn’t you love to be marries to some one like that.

soldierant

(6,890 posts)
6. I (and a few others) have been saying we should have cited
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:25 AM
May 2022

(and should now cite) the 13th Amendment along with the 14th on this issue.

OMGWTF

(3,959 posts)
8. The draft memo mentions the
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:45 AM
May 2022

“Domestic infant supply”. What they mean is most abortions are done on white women and they need more white babies to retain the majority. Creepy AF.

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