6th March 2010, 1:08 PM
Quote:The fact of the matter is that pro-choice people don't like abortion either; they just see it as a necessary right to protect women. At the same time, I don't think sexism has very much to do with why others are pro-life; I believe it has more to do with concern for the fetus and its right to live, and that fetus just so happens to be a parasite on the woman's body.
I think you're right that nobody likes abortion, pro-lifers or pro-choicers (and in fact the pro-choice movement are doing things to raise awareness for safe sex behavior which would prevent the number of unwanted pregnancies, opposite from the pro-life abstinence-only approach which prevents jack shit), but it is indeed very sexist. It's evocative of the gendered idea that women are natural care-givers and mothers, baby-making machines and so on and so forth, and really nothing else. Wanting to do something as shocking as to not want to be a mother is a serious deviation from their natural and expected behaviour as women. Restricting their right to have an abortion is saying that women don't have the capacity to make proper decisions regarding their own bodies. It's just another form of subjugation.