Lately I've begun to wonder if support for abortion isn't largely just a matter of people reacting to trigger words. In other words, they have an emotional reaction to phrases like "woman's right" which thereby determines their judgement. I'd bet if men were just as capable of getting pregnant, and there was no gender consideration to this than most of the "pro-choice" activists would be either unconcerned about or against abortion. In fact, that it happens to be women who get pregnant should have no bearing on whether or not an abortion is an acceptable thing to do, yet the "pro-choice" movement has discovered, (whether deliberately or by accident), that the focus on the words "women" and "rights" get many more people to react by supporting them.
The gender of the person who is pregnant is immaterial, yet many people form their opinions on this issue on that basis because of the trigger words. I imagine this is common, and also that the people who form their opinions that way tend to spend less time on the real meat of the issue when they discuss it, and more time repeating the trigger words that convinced them. Curse those... "LEFT WING CAMPAIGNERS"!
Good point hombre - add to that a long list too:-
IF:-
- women had by far the highest suicide rate
- women lost custody of their children as easily as men do now
- women died 5-7 years younger than men
- women were 97-99% of soldier casualties in a war
- women were 92-93% of those killed at work
- women were battered by their husbands but the media and more importantly the law ignored them and focussed on men being battered by women
.......we'd see feminists frothing at the mouth about these issues. Because it's actually men who suffer mainly the above issues, feminists (who supposedly are for equality) completely ignore them in the main. Instead, they are concerned about women not being able to go topless, and not being treated as 'full human beings' (whatever that nebulous statement means).