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Chris Gast's avatar

I think much of the "abortion is 100% men" trope for many pro-lifers is an auto-immune reaction to being slandered as a men's movement seeking to control women for a half century.

"I know you are but what am I..."

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Sheluyang Peng's avatar

I don’t remember if you’ve talked about this before or not, but the pro-life movement started out as a leftist movement, where abortion was seen as evil right-wing eugenics, especially when it came to the racial differences in abortion rates. Most pro-life people in America were Catholics that were also in the labor movement, so pro-life was seen as leftist and even communist. Evangelicals didn’t really care about abortion until the 1970s. Daniel K. Williams’s book Defenders of the Unborn is a must-read when it comes to the history of abortion politics in America.

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