"Pro-Life" Has Become A Fake Concept

You need to support a child after they're born as well. We're pro-birth.

That tweet response, and this article, do a good job of underlining the hypocrisy in the whole “pro-life” game (and yes, there’s hypocrisy on both sides). Much like work is largely about control, the pro-life movement is largely about control as well — it’s a trope now to say “of women’s bodies,” but that’s largely what it is. It’s the need for control over women — the whole “You’re not ready at home with a cocktail anymore? You have a life of your own?” thing scares people — and it falls into the “existing world vs. encroaching world” narrative shaping much of modernity. Women with power and options terrifies a lot of men — hell, men are generally terrified of women, TBH — and all you need to do is look at the affluent subdivisions around you for proof of this.

The national stat on “mother doesn’t work outside the home” is about 20–25%. In affluent subdivisions, it’s usually 75–80%. This is the world a lot of white, successful guys do want. I’m painting with a broad brush, but they want to be warriors at work, heroes at home, warriors in the bedroom, and generally “in control” of everything. In reality, a lot of them are needle-dicks who couldn’t manage or “warrior” their way out of a paper bag. But eh.

I’m not saying “war on men” or “cancel all men.” We need dudes. They serve a societal purpose. I do think we could evolve that purpose, yes, but I am but one generally unsuccessful man myself.

Go back to this article. It gets political here, but:

Conservatives may well believe that embryos and fetuses are persons. But to claim that anti-abortion legislation is about children is deceitful. “Pro-life” is a magic trick that wraps disdain and revulsion for women’s bodies and lives inside a shiny silver box with pink and blue ribbon. Forced-birth legislation fails to protect children at all, while punishing women who abort — or even miscarry. But punishment is precisely the point, isn’t it? Because such legislation has never been about the children.