The Bible Does Not Condemn Abortion

[Gaugamela]

3. Sorry, I didn't realize what forum you posted this in. I assumed that it was general discussion

and my response was in essence that scripture is beside the point in discussions about abortion, and that the anti-abortion stance was dragged in by the horns in the early 1970s by the Southern Baptists and evangelicals to help create a conservative coalition. I didn't spell all that out because my mind often leaps across what seems to me self-evident connections. Anyway, that's what got me going about patriarchy. In my opinion, the Christian right in this country is clinging desperately to a white male oligarchy that descended from the southern slave owners and which wants to preserve their privilege. That same patriarchy extends to the legal system that keeps giving Trump undue breaks.

I agree, patriarchy is a thorny and pervasive issue, but one that clearly lies behind the anti-democratic, racist and sexist elitism of the extreme right.