Married to the State. Abortion was a natural hook to bring out the vote of unmarried women who would have completely missed that Obama’s Life of Julia from 2012 never mentioned a husband for Julia or a father for her child. I understand that many unmarried women would never fall for this and abhor abortion, but the target audience for this were marginal female unmarried voters upon whom propaganda works, tying it in with ceaseless adds and constant contacts reminding them to vote. Simple, and it worked.
Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle, a very stupid feminist slogan, continues to play out with disastrous consequences in our society. The sexual revolution promoted the lie of sex without consequences, and we are all paying the dreadful consequences of people falling for this bilge.
I’ve believed the Godless left has won many souls and their bait has been one thing–the legitimacy of sin of every kind imaginable. The most prominent leftist bait isn’t abortion in my mind–but pride–the same sin that took angels out of heaven. Their “we care” and “It’s for the children” “BLM” nonsense assuaged many poorly formed consciences opening the door to all the other sins being “good.” The rest, from Ghia (climate) worship, and perverted lust, envy, hatred etc. are all characterizing the dominant leftist mindset. (this is not to say the right is pure)
I’m in agreement with you Don L.
It is a battle for souls.
It’s not going to be won by the hundreds of thousands or hundreds.
It’s won at one soul at a time.
That’s our job as a grunt.
God does the behind the scenes work, but He allows us to participate.
“You did not choose me. I have chosen you.”
Guy McClung’s recent post is spot on. We have to trust in the final outcome and fight fiercely for our King. Meaning our personal sanctification and then those of our neighbors. That’s the battlefield.
When holiness is won within our own homes, community and county…then the State and Country becomes a won territory for Christ the King.
Impossible?
Sure. It seems so in this culture…but nothing is more possible than sanctification. God wills it. God will see it happen but it must be a cooperation between God and man.
That’s where we come in.
Examples.
We must strive for holiness.
We will, with God’s help, attain it and by God win hearts and minds for Christ.
Abortion?
It’s slipping through the cracks of time. Falling into a black hole that is hard to perceive. Abortion is on it’s way out. The devil doesn’t win.
It has been my experience that secular unmarried women…and young married women with no kids..are the most strident abortion supporters, and they are quite nasty about it.
These unmarried women will remain unmarried. No self respecting men will have anything to do with them.
My oldest son is almost 15. He already despises the toxic nature of modern American teen females and wants nothing to do with them. YouTube has several channels dedicated to MGTOW and telling toxic feminism to jump off a cliff.
It’s getting to the point where I see frequent and regular comments at Instapundit, and some other right leaning blogs, stating that women should never have been given the vote and the 19th Amendment was the biggest mistake the nation ever made (or close to it). Granted some of them are probably liberal trolls trying to plant “evidence” that conservatives are hopeless sexists, but not all of them are, and in my darker moments I’m tempted to agree with them. But mainly I just grit my teeth in frustration at how the unhinged feminazi crowd is ruining things for women like me who were raised to be chaste, polite, modest, respectful toward men but also to have brains and use them! If a Handmaid’s Tale dystopia really is just around the corner, it’s these women who will have helped create it.
it’s these women who will have helped create it.
Helped on by irresponsible men for whom abortion has been a ticket for carefree promiscuous sex.
Some women are unmarried due to life cycle factors. The young in general favor the Democratic Party by large margins, though the advantage appears to dissipate as they age. This has been so for about 15 years now. It was not the case 25 years ago, which is one of the curios of our time. Other unmarried women have not been able to establish a marriage. They are in some measure baffled and / or embittered by their problem (in some cases justly, in some cases not). Other women are divorced and fancy they’ve been burned. Some have, some have not. Married people have, quite systemically, a lower level of dissatisfaction with life and a lower tendency to recriminate about the dissatisfactions they do have. Unmarried men receive very little positive feedback from anyone anywhere if they discuss what bothers them. They’re tendencies to dissatisfaction and recrimination are contained. Unmarried women face from all components of the culture positive encouragement for dissatisfaction and recrimination. Some have a sensible family member or gal pal they’re willing to listen to who encourage them to work with the world as they find it, but these tendencies receive almost no public expression.
As I’ve aged, one thing I’ve noticed about the culture around the Democratic Party is that it is a culture of accusation and socially-sanctioned aggression. It attracts people with a certain tendency and promotes those tendencies.
Almost everyone I’m acquainted with who is a committed Democrat displays some combination of resentment, fatuity, and superciliousness. And they’re often bone ignorant about things ordinary people living their lives understand without looking it up.
Half a generation ago, the late Joe Bageant offered that in 1960, common sense was about equally distributed between the political parties. He was a lifelong Democrat who had to admit near the end of his life that that was no longer the case.
The Democrats Party:
“You ain’t black if you don’t vote for the party of slavery and Jim Crow.”
“You ain’t a real woman if you don’t vote for abortion up until birth.. “
Seems an unstable platform.
(But then they do control 95% of the media.)
My gut tells me that this is just race data sliced differently. With the percentage of black women who are unmarried, and the percentage of black men who are ineligible to vote, then definitely look at the dependency of the black family on the state.
My gut tells me that this is just race data sliced differently. With the percentage of black women who are unmarried, and the percentage of black men who are ineligible to vote, then definitely look at the dependency of the black family on the state.
Blacks account for about 18% of the population of women not currently married. About 4% of the male population (or 15% of the black male population) is excluded from voting due to felony convictions. Marital status data is not a proxy for race.
then definitely look at the dependency of the black family on the state.
Republicans do quite well with segments of the population collecting Social Security and signed up for Medicare.
Note, the voting black population split about 70% to 30% in favor of the Democratic Party in 1960. It split 94% to 6% in 1964 and 10-1 majorities have been the order of the day ever since. The most prevalent welfare program among those neither elderly nor disabled is Medicaid. About 38% of the black population is signed up for Medicaid and about 24% is signed up for SNAP. Neither Medicaid nor SNAP (ne ‘Food Stamps’) existed in 1964. About 10% is signed up for some sort of subsidized housing and 4% for TANF.
I am curious to know how many (percentage) “moms in need”–the ones who choose life for their child instead of abortion–ended up on welfare, or depending on the graces of the local 501c3 (that gets gov’t money due to “public/private partnership) and then vote for Democrats because Democrats “care”
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I have a good friend, divorced but has otherwise conservative values and frequently complains about the abuses in the welfare/social services system, who is a firm “Democratic supporter” because they “care.”
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And while we are talking about “Moms in need,” I find it rather unfortunate that we are not talking “Families in need” or “Parents in need.” That baby at risk of abortion has a father somewhere who “needs” to be reached, but I don’t get the impression the Church is really interested in that kind of thing
What about the married women and/or women in a long-term relationship (ie. live with their partner), who fall pregnant “unplanned” but “are not ready to be Mums” or “don’t want another child” or “don’t want another child yet” or “don’t want children at all”. It’s not just the single women having abortions. There is a sort of fear-mongering associated with having a child if a child is not “planned”. And yes, the Church in general needs to do a better job as DJH stated.
Long time pro-life warrior Monica Miller notes that the primary cause of abortion is out-of-wedlock births (so yes, that would include the woman in a long term relationship), and also notes “health care experts, social workers, educators and clergy are simply unwilling to discuss, much less even admit, the true causes of Detroit’s staggering abortion rate,” 1) non marital sex and 2) men not taking responsibility for the children they sire.
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.https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/06/08/end-roe-and-then-fight-the-primary-cause-of-abortion/
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If it is primarily single women going to the abortion clinics, then I suspect the total number of the women who choose life are also primarily single–and very likely in need of gov’t or 501c3 services. And I suspect those folks tend to vote for the Democratic party.
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I know a woman who had a child out of wedlock, who considered abortion–even made an appt at a clinic to discuss. She is a “Person of Color.” She chose life and managed to stay off of welfare and has turned into a real warrior in the fight against societal decay. But I think she may be in the minority.
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I suspect the other elephant in the living room is one that the pro-life community most certainly does not want to consider: they save a woman and her child from the butchers, only to push said butchery down the road. There are any number of articles on the web that discuss the pathologies associated with fatherless families.
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I remember being told some 25 years ago that we were building a pro-life future, because all the abortion-minded women were not having children, but the women who choose life were. Okay, yes, Roe was overturned. That’s a good thing. But the pro-life future is a long way off.
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“health care experts, social workers, educators and clergy are simply unwilling to discuss, much less even admit, the true causes of Detroit’s staggering abortion rate,” 1) non marital sex and 2) men not taking responsibility for the children they sire.
I note this is phrased to avoid placing any responsibility on the woman in question. The dynamic of social relations among the young – which includes a great deal of thoughtless sex – is ghastly. That having been said, ‘taking responsibility’ carries with it no honor in today’s world. It means constructing financial pipeline to a woman who may have scant interest in and little regard for you. All too often what she wants is for you to cough up the cash and go away. Oh, and she wants your mother to be a babysitter on demand.
I have a good friend, divorced but has otherwise conservative values and frequently complains about the abuses in the welfare/social services system, who is a firm “Democratic supporter” because they “care.”
The Democratic Party cares about job opportunities in the education and social services apparat, and about manufacturing MOAR patron-client relationships. That’s it.
only to push said butchery down the road. There are any number of articles on the web that discuss the pathologies associated with fatherless families.
There are pathologies associated with fatherless families. If you want to do something about the homicide rate (as well as senseless deaths from reckless driving and drug use), hire cops, deploy them optimally, allow them to use best practices, back them up when the inevitable controversies arrive, and put criminals behind bars. Wringing your hands over ‘fatherless families’ accomplishes nothing.