• agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Exactly.

      They’re regressive reactionaries. They’re reacting to the sexual revolution where women were freed from controlling patriarchal social mores around sex and relationships.

      Before The Pill and Roe v Wade, women and their relationships and choice of partners was controlled by men or at least the patriarchy. Fathers guarded women’s chastity, peers and society at large enforced social mores with threat of shame, rejection, and ostracism.

      The regressives want that all back. Sanctity of life is what many anti-abortionists claim. But you often see anti-abortionists talk about abortion in terms of (their idea of) sexual morality of women and they talk about pregnancy like it is some kind of “pUnIshMeNT fOr SiNniNg”. With the double-standard assumed, of course, because of their misogynistic worldview.