It's all about having the power to subjugate women and deny us the right to control our own bodies. Try being a homeless single Mom and showing up at the local evangelical church and asking for help. They spit on people in this situation.
True story: I am a single woman who back in the day enjoyed hiking and camping in the Colorado/Utah backcountry - ie the desert. I am very careful to always carry water and one day I found myself near the infamous Bear's Ears National Monument with only a couple of quarts of water remaining in my canteens. I did what any savvy desert explorer would do - headed to the nearest town to refill my water supplies. The town happened to be Monticello, Utah - a very clannish enclave consisting almostly exclusively of Mormons. I noticed a water spigot on the side of an LDS church which boasted a deep green lawn there in the middle of the desert. I went into the church office and politely asked the woman in the church office for permission to fill my canteens with a couple of gallons worth of water. That Mormon church lady fell into a fit as if I was the devil herself come to take all the good people of Monticello to perdition. "They have water in Bluff," she advised me (Bluff is about 60 miles from Monticello).
The Mormons are pro-life, too. Except when it comes to giving a non-believer a gallon or so of water in the desert on a hot summer's day with the temps climbing close to 100 F.
Pfah! If you live in an arid part of the country, you NEVER turn aside someone's request for water. Unless you claim to believe in Dog. Then you can force a woman to bear a child against her will and turn them both out into the desert to die of thirst. Dog's will be done, and the Fundies are certain that Dog doesn't want low income children have health care.
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