So lets say that a young woman is raped at a High School beer party. Per the Republican initiative she has to hold that baby the entire term and give birth to it.
You just completely ruined her life. What happens next? Everyone in school looks at her funny? If they don't then are we to come to accept pregnant young women walking around the High School halls as the norm?
And she has to then take care of that child. Which means what? Not likely to do well in school anymore. Likely will have to drop out. College aspirations likely went completely down the tubes. There isn't likely going to be a marriage involved and a father, and a nuclear family. She likely won't be able to make ends meat at that age. So there will either be work to pay for food and rent and no college education.
Doesn't the Bible say you are not to covet someone else's property? You better believe it does in the Ten Commandments. To covet her baby as if it were your own? As if it were something you could have? Yeah it is a sin!
And both the biological mother and biological father were likely drunk at that time of conception so that child will likely have a learning disability. And the educational services required are going to cause you to take a double mortgage out on your home. And this initiative coincides with greatly rising interest rates doesn't it. So Cui Bono, (who benefits)?
You just completely ruined her life.
******'
But what is the motivation for it? Hatred of the family? Hatred of women? Hatred of a patriarchal society?
And like it or not the only way a child like that can be raised is to be spoiled. Why? Because they are going to be frustrated with learning, hence they are going to have to be coddled and a false sense of superiority is going to have to be instilled in them. Instead of getting and incomplete or an F they will get a pat on the back and be told what you did is good enough.
In some sense it is a great thing that Donald Trump was President. He was sent to Military Academy in the 7th Grade because his parents couldn't handle him? That allows to understand a lot of the motivation of Republican Policy. And if you have had Republican friends in your life you would see it a lot clearer too!
So why does it get support from women? Because it is comforting and reassuring to a women who isn't really so smart! It is providing and legitimizing on a national level what really amounts to negative expectation for her. It is re-terming it not to be a negative expectation.
"Hun you got another babe come'in from being in the cotton field? ..... Which un you thinks the father?"
© 2022 Thomas Murphy
Ps. And because it is a sin what Jesus said applies. It doesn't really matter if you legally procured another woman's baby all that matters is that you thought about doing so; and it is still a sin!
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