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The comments of the new CDC Head spell out in plain terms that the bottom line for the anti-abortion political stance is sexual control. These people absolutely cannot stand sexual freedom, and consequence-free or harm-reduced sexuality. To them, sexual pleasure is a societal resource to be managed, policed, capitalized, and bestowed to the socially “worthy”.
I am convinced that policing access to abortion care is a form of sexual abuse because of the inevitable consequences those policies impose:
It demonizes and punishes sexuality and sexual autonomy under implicit threat of possible injury or death from lack of medical care.
It exerts sociopolitical leverage over a person by legislating their internal and automatic biological functions of sexuality and pregnancy, for the nebulous whims of people they will never even meet.
It forces victims of rape to consider and be subject to their rapists’ control long after the assault has been committed, including custody disputes or forced child rearing if a pregnancy is carried to term.
It subjects women and females to invasive surveillance, de-facto suspicion, and financial burdens that restrict freedom of movement, living conditions, and quality of life.
It endorses and normalizes a toxic and fear-based culture that enthusiastically spreads false and coercive information about complex, private, and deeply personal issues.
These are all aspects of the tactics that sexual abusers use to abuse, rape, control, and extract economic and social control over their victims. Any philosophy that brutalizes and discards the rights of a person for the crime of becoming pregnant has no place in civilized society.
This has always been the case. You could hear it in the language these assholes would use - the way they'd sneer out phrases like "on demand abortion" (how else would you get one? The implication is that it was not a decision run by them). Or snarl about women using abortion as contraception.
You could just tell that most of them hated the idea of women having autonomy and any decorative bullshit about "babies" was just window-dressing. Most of them could not give a flying fuck about actual babies, so their hysterics about fetuses was obviously bullshit.