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Edited on Sun Nov-06-11 06:57 PM by iverglas
Reproductive choice is the single most important thing in a woman's ability to determine the course of her own life.
A woman who is forced to have children she does not want, if her conscience prevents her from relinquishing the child to strangers, will almost certainly have the course of her life altered and it will usually not be for the better.
The educational and employment opportunities open to her will be narrowed. Her socioeconomic status will be lower. Her chances of forming a stable and fulfilling relationship, if she is not already in one, will be greatly reduced, and this will also affect her socioeconomic status. Her child will have less opportunity as a result.
Capitalism depends on workers competing for jobs, to drive down the price of labour. The more workers there are who will, by necessity, accept lousy jobs for lousy pay, the better.
(Of course this is a relatively short-term strategy; the race to the bottom, where everyone is flipping burgers and ringing up cheap crap at the check-out, won't ultimately make anybody money, but the short term is all that matters.)
The more women there are who are available for the lousy jobs with lousy pay -- preferably part-time where they won't even qualify for the limited benefits available to some other workers, women with children often having to work part-time -- the better.
The moral bullshit is just the way to get people -- sometimes genuinely caring people, but often just self-righteous finger-pointing people whose self-image depends on feeling morally superior (as they are encouraged to do, since otherwise they might have to look at how badly they are doing in other respects) -- to vote the way the people who profit from it all want them to.
The same as the whole gun militancy thing, and same-sex marriage, what have you. Get people all riled up about some total non-issue where the right wing can adopt a position that people and parties on the left (or vaguely "liberal") simply cannot adopt, because it is so vile their principles can in no way accommodate it.
The right has no principles, so it can just figure out what stance on an issue it can take that people can be convinced to agree with by trumping up some "moral" reason and outrage against the opposing position.
If universal health care were in the interests of the right wing, don't think for an instant that it would not come up with a way to persuade its base that it was the "moral" path.
There's no point in avoiding the fact that there is nothing "moral" about the anti-choice position or the anti-gun control position or the anti-same-sex marriage position or anything else on which the right wing plays its "values" card.
The only value involved is in the bank accounts of the people and corporations that profit from the votes of the people who buy in to the scam, the profit they make off the backs of the people harmed by those votes.
One might have to make nice with the useful idiots who cast those votes in order to have a chance of getting through to them, but one should never allow one's own thoughts to be perverted by the lying rhetoric of the right wing.
The right wing doesn't care about fetuses any more than it cares about you.
And it's really nice to see so many people getting it!
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