So you are left wing and pro abortion or if you prefer the term pro choice i will use that out of respect for you even though i dont think that is a true position as that would mean you were pro choice across the board.. .ie pro choice regarding pedophilia but i doubt you are.. at least i hope you are not.. never the less i will use pro choice if that is what you prefer.
I really dont know what bronze age society was like but if it were as bad as you make out then thankfully we no longer live in a bronze age society.
I dont think anyone, any catholic and certainly not me will argue that women should and do have the God given right to be treated not just as an adult but as any human being should be and that is with absoulte dignity and respect
"God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them."
So to disrespect fellow human beings is akin to disrespecting God
"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
So i think telling a woman how many children to have, when she can have them of if to have them is a violation of women and if that systematically took place in the bronze age then that system was wrong.
While i think it abhorant to force a woman to become pregnant i do not think mandating that woman who is pregnant is the same thing. For one most pregnancies occur due to women acting according to their own free will. God has determined that the natural result of sexual intercourse may lead to pregnancy. Therefore if you engage in the gift of sex another divine god given right in a natural way that is without the use of contraception you are opening yourself up to the possibility of becoming pregnant. When you use contraception you are trying to circumvent the natural law this means the woman and the man who go along with it are abusing their right. Meaning they are not open to the chance of becoming pregnant so when contraception fails the individuals concerned shift the blame onto the failed contraception and maintain that they still have a right to determine when if at anytime they want to become pregnant yet they never accept that they have violated and abused their own God given right to engage in sexual intercourse. The vast majority of those who use contraception are fully aware of the possibility of contraception failing and the natural result of sex and thus have engaged in sexual intercourse with at least some openess to pregnancy. However for those uneducated individuals who do not know contraception can fail and those who are raped as well as those who are educated but contraception has failed. Once pregnancy is manifest then we are no longer dealing with the god given rights of one individual but 3 individuals and the rights of one can not superceed the rights of another unless the rights themselves exist in a hiararchy.
So say the woman does not want the child but the father does we are dealing with two different rights
1. The right to respect and dignity of the mother who made in the image and likeness of God to decide when or if she wants to become pregnant and decide for herself how she treats her own body
2. The fathers God given right to be a father and protect his children.
Now if there is no child, no pregnancy it is clear the mans right to be a father does not superceed the womans right to choose when or if she wants to become pregnant and think you will agree with me on this point.
However when a pregancy occurs there is the 3rd individual to consider, the child.
Now this child has been given the gift of life by God, therefore life is a divine god given right. So where in the hiarachy of divine god given rights does this right to life place.
The womans right to become pregnant at her own choosing exists because she herself is alive i think you would agree it would be foolish to say a dead woman or a woman who does not exist has these rights because neither a dead woman nor a non existant woman can ever become pregnant and therefore we see dead and non existant women are not given this diivne right by God
Like wise the man's right to be a father and protect his children comes because he is alive. Again it would be foolish using the same reasoning to suggest a dead man or a non existant man has this divine right.
So we see that the divine god given right to life supperceeds at least these two divine God given rights infact all divine god given rights only exist on that first gift of life given by God and thus the divine god given right to life superceeds all other divine god given rights.
Now what logically follows is not going to please you any further. Now because the woman does not want the child but the child exists and because the father wishes to exersize his right to have and protect the child this not only becomes his right it actually becomes his duty.. not only his but the mothers duty also and while the mother wishes to abandon her duty the divine right and duty of the father superceeds the mothers right to determine when or if she has children. The fact is she already has a child as soon as she becomes pregnant.
The fetus (latin for child) does not borrow the womans body. The fetus (child) has its own body. The womans body is simply acting according to nature and fullfilling its duty of care to the child.
A solider has a duty to his country to his fellow servicemen to his fellow country men. Has has a duty and he has to act accordingly and carry out that duty if he does not then he is punished for refusing to carry out his duty.
Yet he has not being given the gift of being a soldier by God, instead that position was bestowed upon him by the state. If then the state can punish a soldier for failing to carry out his duty given to him by the state but the states primary role is to defend and uphold the divine god given rights why can it not punish mothers and fathers for failing to do their duty towards their children.
I go even further
The child has a right to a family because it has a mother and a father, the family is the unit by which a mother and father carry out their duty towards the child. If then the father or the mother violates or destroys the family unit then that individual should be punished by the state also.
I assume you are christian becuase you are on a christian forum. However i understand that nonchristians frequent christian forums.
Either way, may i reccomend a book its a very good read and not too long. Its a book that i have frequently reccomended to both christian and non christian pro choice individuals and it has had much success in helpping pro choice individuals to understand and embrace the pro life position but the funniest thing is the book itself DOES NOT even touch upon the subject of abortion. What i think happens is the book helps the reader to understand human interaction on a much more fundemental level and once that is grasped by the reader the pro life position becomes self evident. Of course you are free to not read it if you are affraid it may change your opinion, after all i wouldnt want to force you to read it. Never the less surely you must be intregued by a book that i claim is powerful enough to change the position of pro choice individuals many of whom were totally dedicated to the pro choice position.
The book is called mere christianity by c.s lewis and it can be found online in the link below. If you so read it just click the next button on the bottom of each chapter to move to the next chapter
https://novel12.com/mere-christianity/-chapter-136443.htm