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In reply to the discussion: Abortion: what is really the issue? [View all]TheBlackAdder
(28,168 posts)21. Yep. Most everything in the Boble supports abortion. Very little "pro-forced birth."
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It was perverted for three main reasons:
Keep and retain church membership and their coffers by manufacturing a wedge issue.
Continue to control women and make them subservient.
Energize the church members to become politically engaged.
In my Women in Politics course, which only touched on a few of these, my religion courses touched on the rest, since the mid-70s, there are still a solid 45% of women who still vote the patriarchy based on their church's religious and orthodox views.
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Yep. Most everything in the Boble supports abortion. Very little "pro-forced birth."
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#21
Someone asked some Republicans about paying a child stippend for those pregnant during COVID. . .
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#22
The apple in the garden of Eden represented knowledge. That's what they're against
Walleye
Oct 2020
#5
The religious "tenets" re: abortion are not based on logic, except perhaps for the political gains
hlthe2b
Oct 2020
#11
Theologically, it is all about "ensoulment" -- the moment that the fetus receives a "soul"
Klaralven
Oct 2020
#17
I find it always freaks people out when I point out there are directions in the Bible.
Gore1FL
Oct 2020
#18
evolutionary psychology. it is the prime directive to pass on that packet of dna.
mopinko
Oct 2020
#20
Like all the other GOP hard-line stands, it's bait and switch, and that's why it's nonsense
Mr. Ected
Oct 2020
#30
"How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control" - an article from 2018
OnDoutside
Oct 2020
#44