Anti-abortionists: Fanatical and Uncaring.

The fanaticism of anti-abortionists confirms that it's not about abortion per se, but all about getting their way, no matter what. They're unreasonable, unyielding, and given to lies and thoughtless appeals to religion. Hardly the stuff of compassion, kindness, and mercy.

At the root of it all, misogyny.

Women are not to be trusted, but to be kept.

The chief end of women, of course: to produce babies for the Empire, and then the men will protect the mothers and the children ... and then protect the church, and then protect the nation from godless communism and such enemies of God. 

John Wayne kinda men ... bold, hard, square-jawed, and ready to kill the bad guys. Locked and loaded ...

None of this makes any sense when examined, but it's great pulpit fodder for easily misled evangelicals, who have been primed since birth to show up, shut up, and do as they're told.

If an image is needed, return to the days of yore - the veranda of an ante-bellum Virginia plantation ... dashing men with their horses and dogs, and women in hoop skirts, with "colored" nannies.

Pretty miserable stuff.

And there's no dealing with it.

Conversation is impossible.

I don't know how it can be resolved.

It's a first-rate mess.

Abortion: What Republicans Really Want

 Misogyny, the hatred of women.

Why?

Because, with the first woman, Eve, sin entered the world. Without Eve, there'd be no sin; without women to tempt men, there'd be no ??? Well, who knows. But it's the woman's fault.

The point is this: WOMEN NEED TO BE CORRALLED, CONTROLLED, AND IMPREGNATED!

WHY?

Women, of course, can't be trusted. They are, after all, "the weaker sex." They're overly emotional, they cry, they haven't the intelligence needed to make their way in the world; they need a man's care, provisioning, and guidance, and above all, they need to make babies.

This is the GOP dream world.

If you wanna know what this world looks like, look no further than El Salvador - a sadly troubled land, with some of the world's most severe anti-abortion laws. Written and conceived by the descendants of Torquemada. 

The Roman Catholic Church is happy! in a maniacal sort of way - what do these old men do all day long, but dream of sex, and hating themselves for it, do everything they can to banish the idea, or, to put it more directly: deal with the cause. WOMEN!!!! 

Punish women for wanting to be fully human; punish them for wanting a voice in their pregnancies. Punish them ... punish them ... punish, punish, punish. It feels soooooo good.

This is what the GOP wants. GOP men, and their women, must think about sex and the bedroom morning, noon, and night - crafting legislation and approving laws that target women, gays, and trans - because such folks upset the sexual applecart, and we can have any of that. No siree bob. 

You can read about it HERE.

Pray, with me, that this case, now in the courts will reverse the draconian anti-abortion laws of El Salvador, and when you read "anti-abortion," read anti-women. Whatever the language anti-abortionists might use, it's not about the child; it's all about the woman!

Thanks to the Los Angeles Times for this article, April 19, 2021

Prohibition Zeal ...

The misplaced zeal of prohibition.

Yes, booze was killing millions.
Caught in the hell of their factories.
In the slime of the slums.
Without hope and without light.

Booze becomes, then, or now, some relief.
Who can blame anyone wanting a little R & R?

So, the pious and the well-meaning.
Smashed the barrels and passed the 24th Amendment.

And we all know how that worked.
A boon to the crooked, it was.
While the rich still had their booze and speak-easies.

I guess the nation needed to try it out.

But what a dismal failure it was.
Because the real issues were poverty.
Child labor.
The cruelty of the rich.
The wantonness of Wall Street.
Desperation for millions caught in the cogs of "progress."

This whole anti-abortion thing strikes me as pious palaver.
Misplaced energy and misguided thinking.
The issue isn't abortion.
It's a thousand other things that weaken families.
Victimizes women and young girls.
The macho men who can't keep their pants zipped.
And the pathetic preachers who label it all, "God's will."

Piety of this sort isn't piety at all.
It's just ignorance, fear and misogyny.
The ancient anxiety of men.
To keep women penned and pregnant.

I don't know.
Looks like we're headed in all the wrong directions.
With a brute in the WH.
And sex-fixated conservatives, hands in the pockets.

I hope it doesn't endure.
It won't.
This kind of stuff always falters and fails.
But not without doing its horrible work.