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The legal system heavily favors women. The pay gap leadership roles, women are and have been getting what they want. Men are oppressed in the courts in the media at work. Look at you, can you say women are oppressed? Not hardly. To the point that it seems that it's ok that husband's have no right to want a child in the womb to live if his wife doesn't. That father isn't oppressed? I can tell you he is.
There is even a movement that wants it to be illegal to question a woman's testimony if she accuses a man of misconduct.
The legal system does not favour women. If it did, the conviction rate for rape would be much higher, for a start. Men often claim that the outcomes of divorce are unfair to them, but they fail to realise that this reflects the way that divorce outcomes tend to be much worse for women. Post-divorce, it is women who experience deeper and longer-lasting poverty, for example, especially since their capacity to work is usually impacted by primary custody of children.
Women are getting neither what we want, nor what would be a matter of equal treatment. You want to say women are not oppressed, but you do not acknowledge the obstacles we face in education, in employment, and in social participation.
Abortion is a particularly fraught issue from all sorts of directions, and I am not promoting abortion. But again, I will reiterate, in every case where I have provided a woman with pastoral care around abortion, she was coerced into that abortion by a man. Deepening patriarchal control of women would only make that coercion more likely and more difficult to withstand. We cannot paint the abortion question as a simple matter of evil women depriving men of their children.
It's very relevant. The primary society is the human family. Abortion is all about a woman's authority over which humans are worthy of life. Not authority given by God I assure you.
The primary society is the human family? Says who? From a Christian point of view, biological family is treated as secondary to spiritual family.
Even that aside, abortion is about a huge, messy, complicated, interconnected web of problems. While I see abortion as a terrible thing, I do not for one second see it as a problem which could be alleviated by deepening male control of women.
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