Eh, it's just a matter of whether you think it is right to do something that you find morally wrong in order to prevent further morally wrong things down the line. It reminds me of the trolley problem, which is generally considered a moral gray area:
Trolley problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So yeah, you can argue with them about the morality of abstinence-only education. But it seems that you have conceded your original argument that they are "at large" misogynists, so I suppose my work is done.
The trolley problem is a neat mental construct for debating what is or isn't right in a vacuum, for its own sake, disconnected from any real-life consequences.
We can do whatever we like with the trolley. The men killed or saved by how we direct it don't exist.
The pro-life movement is a real thing that actually exists.
In the real world, there are consequences. Every action's equal and opposite reaction and such. If a person says, "I will never compromise my moral stance on premarital sex in order to minimize abortion," there is a corollary: "I
will compromise my stance on abortion to minimize premarital sex."
I really don't like the idea of an abortion, but I like the idea of forcing someone to carry a child they don't want to term and give birth even less.
You haven't really convinced me the pro-life movement isn't misogynistic, just distracted me by giving me an argument much easier to make, really.
Honestly, I've seen quite a bit of rhetoric against any form of birth control, period. From mailings or ads by pro-life groups, from people participating in discussions like this one. A lot of talk about how sex is for procreation only.
Granted not all of that is legitimate misogyny. Some of it is nonsense about "playing God," from people who apparently believe their god is no more powerful than a condom.
But in the face of that kind of thing it doesn't look like the real problem the person speaking has with abortion is that it's taking a human life. It looks like their real problem is that it's allowing a woman to do something other than be "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen," as they say.
Put another way, abortion is one of several things they hate because it gives a woman the power to choose not to be pregnant. It's not the most significant one, but its the one easiest to attack.
