I don't think most people who advocate some degree of restriction on access to abortion are religious fundamentalists. I agree the right-wingers are probably hopeless, but I've seen "but, but, women who don't want to get pregnant just shouldn't have sex!" many times from people who are not in the Christian Coalition's audience.
About eugenics, it's possible; people's attitudes about rape are so weird that anything is possible there. Usually what I've heard is "carrying a rapist's baby would be so horrible for a woman, we shouldn't make anyone do it." Which is true, but discounts how horrible it must be to continue *any* pregnancy that you don't want, and the fact that we even have a calculus of just how bad it has to be before you get rights reflects misogyny. Which I don't think is separable from sex-negativity, but that's my opinion.
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Date: 2009-12-02 09:34 pm (UTC)About eugenics, it's possible; people's attitudes about rape are so weird that anything is possible there. Usually what I've heard is "carrying a rapist's baby would be so horrible for a woman, we shouldn't make anyone do it." Which is true, but discounts how horrible it must be to continue *any* pregnancy that you don't want, and the fact that we even have a calculus of just how bad it has to be before you get rights reflects misogyny. Which I don't think is separable from sex-negativity, but that's my opinion.