Is "Pro-life" about saving babies or punishing women?

[Ping Tung]

[ret5hd]

1. punishing. definitely.

[Ocelot II]

2. Since once the babies are born there's no inclination on the part of the RW

to help them by making sure they have enough food, housing, education, etc., the answer to that question is pretty obvious: Those slutty sex-having women are to be punished for their immoral sluttiness (notwithstanding the obvious involvement of men) by having to give birth to and support their babies with no help from anyone.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Punishment, cruelty, control.

GOP does not care about babies or children.

[jmbar2]

4. "Slut" shaming

[AllaN01Bear]

5. punishing.

[Jeebo]

6. I've always thought it's about keeping people from having sex.

The only time sex is allowed is within marriage, with the lights off, under the covers, and only ONCE for each child you're going to have, and even then, you're NEVER allowed to enjoy it. That's the puritanical culture I was brought up in. Those were the kinds of attitudes I had growing up, until I started coming to my senses in early adulthood. Inevitably, of course, if they can't keep people from having sex, they want to burden it with all kinds of onerous consequences, and that would be what y'all are calling punishment.

— Ron

[SheltieLover]

7. Definitely punishing women

[newdeal2]

9. Trump said it early on

“There needs to be some form of punishment for the woman”

[Ping Tung]

12. That from the guy who has had 3 trophy wives and brags about "grabbing" women.

[Skittles]

14. he was an EPSTEIN CLIENT

a fucking PERVERT

[csusan]

8. I can answer that

I escorted at a reproductive health clinic in my town til it closed. Got in a discussion with a forced birther protester. I suggested we discuss together ways to decrease abortion like free birth control. His response was "NO! Then they will have sex whenever they want." I think that answers the question.

[allegorical oracle]

10. The irony of ironies is that the Repugs want women having more babies at the same

time they're passing laws that make pregnancy more dangerous than it's been in 60 years. That would suggest that they don't respect women very much.

[Bettie]

11. Punishing women and

punishing the children as well, since there will be no Medicaid, no Public Schools, no SNAP....it's their utopia, lots of suffering, while they roll around in piles of cash or count their crypto....however one would do that.

[DFW]

13. "Pro-Life" was NEVER about saving lives, only about controlling women

It was not about abolishing the death penalty or vegetarians preventing animals from being raised and slaughtered for human consumption. So, NOT "pro-life." It was only about controlling women and preventing them from having abortions if they wanted (or even needed) them. "Pro-life" extremists have not been reluctant to call for the death penalty for women who have abortions, and they sometimes have not even held back in murdering physicians who perform the procedure. The only ones among them who are credibly "pro-Life" are the ones who are advocates of a certain brand of Quaker Oats cereal.

[Hekate]

15. Punishment and control

[Solly Mack]

16. Punishment

[RoeVWade]

17. Seems like the fight has gone to making sure people aren't prosecuted across state borders. And keeping Plan B legal.

It's definitely proven you can't rest where your rights are concerned.

[BigmanPigman]

18. Keep them barefoot and pregnant.

Hasn't this been their agenda for thousands of years? It'll never change.