r/worldnews • u/OuthouseRedback • 15d ago
Western Australia has made it illegal to protest outside abortion clinics *Within 150 meters
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It's about punishing women for being in control of their bodies and having sex. Abortions are just easier to yell about than contraceptives.
And even then, Evangelicals didn't care about abortion issues when Roe happened. They only started talking about it when the Feds came for their segregated private schools, and they knew being pro-segregation wouldn't get them very far politically
-8 u/RGivens 15d ago It's about not killing babies, that is all. 9 u/Rainboq 15d ago It was never about the fetuses, they're just a convenient wedge issue.
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It's about not killing babies, that is all.
9 u/Rainboq 15d ago It was never about the fetuses, they're just a convenient wedge issue.
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It was never about the fetuses, they're just a convenient wedge issue.
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u/Rainboq 15d ago
It's about punishing women for being in control of their bodies and having sex. Abortions are just easier to yell about than contraceptives.
And even then, Evangelicals didn't care about abortion issues when Roe happened. They only started talking about it when the Feds came for their segregated private schools, and they knew being pro-segregation wouldn't get them very far politically