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Why Are Abortion Proponents So Emotional?
Proponents of abortion get quite emotional, many to the point of irrationality. Their reactions to the potential that there might be even the slightest constraints on abortion are way over the top. We have seen quite a bit of hysterics on display the last couple of months.
Why? I can’t think of another issue that generates such a high level of emotion, even supposedly existential issues like “climate change.” The weird sex advocates get emotional and are very persistent, but even they don’t get hysterical in the same way that abortion advocates do.
What is it about abortion that causes such reactions?
For this discussion, I am referring to the extreme activists who put themselves on public display, not the vast muddy middle of people that @susanquinn addresses below.
[I operate on a theory that the more I understand the other party’s motivations, the more likely I can help either find a workable solution, or convince them that they might be mistaken.]
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Who are you and what have you done with MarciN?
Pay for motherhood is obscenity.
Exactly. The left doesn’t need children of their own — they just take yours.
This is the Progressive impulse. It denigrates fact and advocates fiction.
Progress is good, but only from the bottom up.
I’m sorry. I just want justice for the J6 political prisoners. That’s what I was saying. :-)
I remain incensed by how they have been treated.
It was a snark. :-)
No apologies, please! I’m cheering you on even in my shock. :-)
Indeed, that’s precisely why so many men support abortion, and pressure their girlfriends into having an abortion: so they don’t have to pay 18 years of child support.
Or perhaps marry someone that they didn’t want to be around but for the boinking.
Well, that’s where the term “shotgun wedding” came from.
“C’est la vie”, say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell”…
It’s also the first time in their lives they’ve ever heard that men had any value whatsoever. Women have been taught that men live solely to oppress women.
If the world (at least our part of it) has gotten to the point where women think they can deal with it without the help of a man, it’s only because men made it that way.
And men weren’t made to rape and conquer. That’s from his perverse understanding of humanity.
As I’ve pointed out before, maybe on a different post/thread, a “famous” feminist once made the accusation that “all men are equipped to be rapists.” To which the response was – and remains – “all women are equipped to be prostitutes.”
And you can only accomplish this sacrament if you become pregnant. What is rewarded will invariably increase.
Wow, I have never felt that. Another way in which I seem to differ from many other females. In fact, I feel somewhat diminished by “sharing” this.
So far, so good. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10954353/Women-threaten-SEX-STRIKE-protest-SCOTUS-overturning-Roe-v-Wade.html
We are pretty close to chimps mate. It ain’t pretty but it’s True.
Closer to the mark to say that we are well-equipped to outcompete other self-reproducing systems. Competition is for resources. Not only territory and food are resources, but so are mating opportunities with healthy partners, and status (a proxy for and indicator of resources). Creatures without a sex drive do not out-reproduce anything and go extinct, so as we are not extinct of course, we have a sex drive. The sex drive does not shut down just because an individual creature is a loser and has been out-competed for other resources. Broke, ugly, crazy, hungry, or low-status creatures do the risk/reward math differently because they are already losing.
I lost my best friend of 17 years, who’s Irish, to the issue of abortion. We were always as different as could be politically but were always able to discuss without any problems, including on abortion. We actually continued being able to remain friends during the referendum time as well as the first round of the “czarny protest” strikes in 2016 here in Poland. He was a bit more extreme after the referendum though and by the time of the second wave of “czarny protest” strikes in Oct 2020 I guess he was unable to tolerate my beliefs. I wondered if the Covid lockdowns had something to do with it. We met up regularly before but then went about six months with no face-to-face contact. The exchange we had when he stopped talking to me was via WhatsApp.
Heartbreaking, Chris.
Yep, very sad. After all of the conversations over the years on so many topics I was not expecting it.
I do think the transition over the last several years to much more on-line contact and much less face-to-face contact among people (and especially the Covid-related push to isolate from each other of the last 2.5 years) has negatively affected our ability to disagree agreeably, which effect is probably even more pronounced on abortion, a topic on which agreeable disagreement was already difficult.
It may not be something that women are consciously aware of. But it could also, for example, help to explain the attraction of gossip.
This reminds me of the George Carlin bit: “Ever notice that the women most fervently pro-abortion are women you wouldn’t want to $%#* anyway?”
The same kind of thing seems to apply to nudist camps/”colonies,” nude beaches, etc.
You maybe, but not me.
Religion has a refutation and an explanation for science, but… science also has an explanation for religion, and need not bother with refutation. That said, I agree that HC has mis-stated the case.
Really? What explanation does science have for religion that isn’t all just concocted musings and imaginings and “sounds good” atheistic theories?
Saying “it makes sense” built up upon an atheistic bias is not science. Are you talking about the “god particle”, or the “religion center” of the brain, or archeological digs, or just the Just-So-Story “evidences” presented by evolutionary psychology.