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Title: Why Abortion is Patriarchal Oppression
Language: en
Topics: abortion, patriarchy, oppression, women's rights

Why Abortion is Patriarchal Oppression

Cis men often pressure, force, or coerce women and pregnant people into

abortions. They threaten us into it or otherwise try and manipulate us.

Men (not all but too many to not talk about) use abortion as a way to

use women as reusable and disposable sex objects so that they can have

sex with them all they want without having to take care of their

responsibilities. There are even movements called "bro-choice" and “men

for choice” that ironically point this out, with "bros" talking about

how abortion is good for them specifically because of that

reasoning....and somehow the “no uterus no opinion” idea conveniently

doesn’t apply to “pro-choice” men. It treats our bodies as garbage

disposals; as in, what you put into us can just be chopped up into

little bits and the bloody mess taken out so that you can use us over

and over again. Abortion is a deadbeat dad's favorite thing.

Rapists use it to continue to rape and control their victims, as it gets

rid of the “evidence” (not only DNA evidence to prove he was the rapist

on trial, but suddenly having a child is evidence that she is being

raped to everyone around her as well) and thus they can get away with

raping her for longer, and pressuring her to abort is another way to

control her too. This happens with standard rape and statutory rape as

well, and some abortion clinics have even lied about the age of

statutory rape victims or didn’t contact social services when she comes

in with an older man, so that they can give underage girls abortions.

Alice Paul, the feminist who created the Equal Rights Amendment act

(ERA) has stated, “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.”

There are so many ways in which that rings true.

Men also have killed many women and pregnant people for not aborting, or

otherwise harmed them by throwing them down stairs etc. to try and cause

a miscarriage, or slipped them the abortion pill without them knowing

it. Without men and the patriarchy, abortion wouldn't exist. Not only

that but it was the men of NARAL who sold abortion to feminists and the

world in the late 1960s by making up lies. One of those men, the

abortion doctor Bernard Nathanson, flat-out admitted that they lied. And

it was men who were the ones to vote on Roe V Wade and men have always

been the abortion doctors, and prey on women by telling them that their

children are not children but clumps of cells etc., so that they can get

their abortion dollars. Some of them have admitted they make lots of

money from abortion.

Also, male bosses make women feel like they can't be mothers while

working and that abortion is what they should choose, which is just

another way to coerce. Same with being single or poor or going to school

or what have you. Women get abortions because of the mother shaming

society we live in making them feel like they have no other choice. If

men could get pregnant, abortion wouldn't exist, because people don't

tell men that they can't be career men and fathers at the same time yet

women get constantly told that we can't be career women and mothers at

the same time so abortion is necessary for our success. This is one of

those tactics that those men from NARAL used to get support for

abortion. It's just sad that it worked.

The abortion-and-pro-choice-industry tells us that the wombless male

body is normative and that in order to have equal rights to men and

compete in a male-dominated world, we need have abortion so that we

aren't "bothered" and "bothering them" with the concept of having

children. Instead of raising women to the equal rights level of men as

we are, we are taught to get rid of what makes us uniquely female

because it is a "burden", and that we should lower ourselves to what we

deem as the worst kind of men--deadbeat dads. Instead, we should be

empowering pregnant and parenting women, and telling them we CAN do it.

You CAN be pregnant or a mother while going to school, you CAN be

pregnant or a mother while working, you CAN be pregnant or a mother

while a teenager, you CAN be pregnant or a mother while single, and you

CAN be pregnant or a mother while poor. Rosie the riveter is a great

example of the "yes we can" concept yet somehow when it comes to

pregnancy we have turned it into "No you can't, have an abortion."

Having kids does not mean you have to give up a life worth living, yet

that is what the abortion industry wants us to believe, but it goes

against everything feminism stands for.

There are many women who regret their abortions, and have depression

from it, PTSD from it, suicidal tendencies from it, or have actually

killed themselves from it. You can find their videos on youtube or their

stories in writing, just by looking up "I regret my abortion" or

"abortion regret" on google or youtube. Because women are basically told

in various ways that we have no other choice to abort yet people turn

around and say it is somehow “our choice” when debating abortion, we are

the ones who end up as the scapegoats and thus have to deal with all the

heaviest feelings from it. We are told we can’t regret it because it was

“our choice” despite the fact that we choose it because we are told we

have no choice. The men who pressure us into it get out without having

to deal with it because it reinforces old-fashioned stereotypes that

anything having to do with babies is “women’s work.”

There are so many women who feel this way that there are endless amounts

of organizations around to help women with post-abortive regret, which

wouldn't be able to be around if women never regretted it, yet these

women constantly get ignored so that the abortion industry can act like

women rarely regret it to keep women supporting pro-choice politicians

and coming into the abortion clinics and giving them their hundreds of

dollars for each abortion. Women's voices of regret are being swept

under the rug like crazy. That is what misogyny looks like. Although not

all men do the things I am describing in this article, and in fact

abortion can hurt men and make them regret lost fatherhood just like

many women regret their abortions as well, it still happens far too

much.

Also, it truly shows we are oppressed when people act like somehow we

need to have a right to treat our children the way we have been treated

by men, by oppressing them and treating them as our property to be

disposed of as we see fit, and instead of giving us actual help for our

situations. Offering abortion is an easy way for people to blow off our

problems and act like they helped us. An abortion doesn't make a poor

woman not poor or a raped woman un-raped or an abused woman not abused

etc., it just throws women right back into these situations after she

leaves the clinic. All it gives her is a dead child on top of the

problems she has, it doesn't help the problem at all. It doesn't solve

the root problem.

On top of all of that, sex selective abortion kills females in the womb

just for being females because people want sons. This happens in various

countries including our own but in the ones where it is most prevalent,

there is a gap between the amount of men and women, as a decent chunk of

women were killed in the womb. This has led to young women being

kidnapped, raped, trafficked, and forced into marriages because the men

of the population have a lack of women to choose from in terms of

coupling. Pro-lifers believe in women's rights, we just go one step

further and say that ALL women should have rights, not just the born

ones, for we truly don't have rights if they don't start when we first

exist. Women deserve better than all of this. We deserve better than

being given a bad choice that no one really wants and we basically just

choose because we are told we need to choose it. No woman walks into an

abortion clinic happy to do it. This is something that both pro-choicers

and pro-lifers agree on. We just need to understand that that horrible

choice that no one likes or really wants shouldn't be held up as an

example of wonderful women's rights. It's something that comes from our

oppression and is something we should always be fighting to end, because

it hurts us too.

All of these things are why when I was 14 and found out what abortion

was, I was pro-life on the specific basis that I am a liberal feminist.

I started off by having many feminist reasons to be against abortion

before I could even know the politicizing strategies of each side. And

when I started to hear the stereotypes that abortion was supported by

feminists and opposed by those who aren't, I automatically assumed

people were joking, because that would never make any sense. Abortion is

pure violence, on our children and us. It would never fit in with

feminism. It is just more evidence that we are oppressed.

For more information on Pro-Life feminism, google or facebook search (or

enter in the websites of) out the organizations

Feminists for Life : http://www.feministsforlife.org/

Feminists for Nonviolent Choices : http://www.ffnvc.org/

New Wave Feminists: https://www.newwavefeminists.com/

Feminists Choosing Life of New York Action: https://www.fclnyact.org/

and Pro-Life Feminists: https://prolifefeminists.wordpress.com/

These are the organizations that have helped me realize that I am not

alone and that Pro-Life feminism has existed since feminism began, as it

started off Pro-Life to begin with. All the early feminists, such as

Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Victoria Woodhull,

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Wollstonecraft etc. etc. and even Margaret

Sanger (the founder of Planned Parenthood) were pro-life. It was the men

from NARAL who made up lies that turned some of the feminists

pro-choice. Let's not let men get the better of us, and return to

understanding that the violence of abortion is not fit for feminism and

a world where we champion peace and equal rights. It is the destruction

of everything we stand for. It is the destruction of us.