• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    This is erasure of the like, 1 maybe 2, trans men that are anti-abortion

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      I wish it was that few, but sadly trans people can have some really atrocious politics too. I doubt they’re a significant factor on this particular scenario, though.

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      trans men that are anti-abortion

      Well, allow me to be inclusive and say that both cis- and trans men who oppose aborion deserve a very equal kick to the face.

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    Plenty of men support abortion - it removes financial responsibility from them, after all. Protests at abortion clinics are often held by women as much as men.

    The more important demographic here is that most opposed to abortion are strongly religious.

    Look outside the US and you’ll see that countries that do support choice are less influenced by the Church. It’s not coincidence.

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      And many of the men who oppose abortions, are massive fucking hypocrits who will gladly have their mistress get an abortion somewhere else.

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      I would encourage you to read the post more carefully. It doesn’t say anything about how many men oppose abortion. It’s making a claim about how many abortion opponents are men. Therefore, the 21% left over in that statement are in fact women who, most likely due to religious brainwashing, oppose abortion.

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        Correct.

        And you’ll note that the article I linked to was about women who oppose abortion, who, in fact, seem fine with getting one themselves.

        I’m somewhat confused as to what you thought I was talking about.

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      Wow… I’m in the 21% who don’t oppose abortion and I also don’t go to clinics to harass the doctors, so apparently the story has at least 3 halves.

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    Doesn’t really matter because the supermajority of Americans think abortion should be legal anyway. It’s a small minority of the population that we have allowed to dictate domestic policy for their religious agenda.

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      It’s not even religious. Their religion says all kinds of really important shit that they completely ignore. They just pick this one specific issue because they hate women and it’s a lot easier to say “Uhhhh it’s because of my religion, you’re discriminating against me!” than it is to say “I hate women and want them to suffer”.

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        Oh come now. They don’t hate women, they just want to punish women for having sex outside of marriage because it’s against…their… religion…

        …hm.

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          Also not in the religion, they’re specifically instructed that they’re not to make judgements or enact any punishments on the behalf of god, which this is.

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          I think even that is reaching. Most of them don’t want to punish women for extramarital sex, they just think God’s will is that those women deserve what they get. Of course they still defy God’s will by wearing glasses if God gave them bad eyes, but that’s just more shoddy reasoning.

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        Their motivations are still religious. Scripture and belief/practice often do not coincide or outright contradict each other.

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        It’s religious leaders saying this stuff. It isn’t in scripture. Not Christian scripture, at any rate.

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        I think that’s confusing simple ignorance and crappy reasoning with hate, which is a very misapplied word today. Another example is people who don’t recycle - they don’t hate the environment, they’re just fucking lazy.

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    And of the women, probably 1/3rd of them are post-menopausal and won’t have any more kids either

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    Reminds me of how some at the GOP was making a joke that it makes no sense for women over 50 to even care about abortion rights cause it doesn’t apply to them anymore.

    Yet he saw no problem with him, as a man who can never carry a child, having an opinion on abortions.

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    If men could get pregnant, there would be drive-through abortion clinics every 5 miles

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    But statistically 50% of the aborted fetuses will be male! Checkmate!

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    And those 79% should never get an abortion if they do become pregnant and leave everyone else the fuck alone.

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    Our, maybe try a slightly less sexist approach and look at the religion these people follow. In my experience, abortion has never been a man/woman issue, it’s a religious one

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      Idk how to respectfully say this, but you are being so vengeful toward religion that you forgot the intersectionality of gender and sex to that equation. This is not to invalidate your feelings, but that I find your statement invalidating a large part of this topic for no reason.

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    As one of the 21% who support abortion I think this statement is a little cavalier. The numbers tell more than one story.