There were a couple of pieces I read last week that made some connections that hadn't occurred to me before -- of course the next step after taking abortion out of reach is to erode the right to contraception, and of course the most conservative elements want women out of the workforce and back to being forced to marry ASAP and stay at home with their hordes of (preferably white and Christian) children.
But this article looked at the history of adoption over the twentieth century, and the decades when single mothers were expected and even coerced into putting their children up for adoption -- but the rate of children being put up for adoption plummeted drastically after Roe v. Wade. Turns out, there are a significant number of fundies who really want thousands of (healthy, white) children being put up for adoption every year and handed off to Christian couples who'd really love to be part of the Quiverfull movement if they'd been able to have children of their own. And there are a lot of organizations out there streamlining the adoption process and armtwisting single women into having and relinquishing their children. (Crisis Pregnancy Centers, it turns out, pretty much specialize in this.)
So, um, the arguments that contraception and sex ed actually prevent abortions by preventing unwanted pregnancies, and that abstinence-only education is really bad in terms of preventing teen pregnancies? Yeah, that's going to the assumption that all pro-lifers actually want to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
ETA: Glad you sprung for the trial -- hope you enjoy it! And yeah, I'm thinking the sane Republicans are just keeping their heads down hoping they don't get swept out when the voters purge the Tea Party elements, and biding their time for 2014 and 2016.
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Date: 2012-04-10 03:07 pm (UTC)But this article looked at the history of adoption over the twentieth century, and the decades when single mothers were expected and even coerced into putting their children up for adoption -- but the rate of children being put up for adoption plummeted drastically after Roe v. Wade. Turns out, there are a significant number of fundies who really want thousands of (healthy, white) children being put up for adoption every year and handed off to Christian couples who'd really love to be part of the Quiverfull movement if they'd been able to have children of their own. And there are a lot of organizations out there streamlining the adoption process and armtwisting single women into having and relinquishing their children. (Crisis Pregnancy Centers, it turns out, pretty much specialize in this.)
So, um, the arguments that contraception and sex ed actually prevent abortions by preventing unwanted pregnancies, and that abstinence-only education is really bad in terms of preventing teen pregnancies? Yeah, that's going to the assumption that all pro-lifers actually want to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
ETA: Glad you sprung for the trial -- hope you enjoy it! And yeah, I'm thinking the sane Republicans are just keeping their heads down hoping they don't get swept out when the voters purge the Tea Party elements, and biding their time for 2014 and 2016.