‘MOM BABY GOD’ Offers Outsider’s Inside View of Pro-Life Movement : The (402)/411
“It always comes back to God in the end,” Burrows said of pro-life efforts. “They try to rebrand themselves as focusing on women’s rights, but it really comes down to reinforcing conservative Christian values and pushing it on people.”
She tried to understand the pro-life movement from the perspective of other young women. Burrows said she could see why they were persuaded by pro-life supporters.
“They (women) were coming from a place of deep hurt and deep pain in their own lives,” Burrows said. “These conversations were around sexual violence, rape and hypersexualization and the idea that women will always be there for sex and always be objectified.”
Every woman agrees those are problems. But anti-abortionists use those issues to push for solutions making abortion illegal and contraception inaccessible because they are contributing to a sexual culture, Burrows said.
“I knew where they were coming from, but taking away women’s rights to make it be the fundamental solution … that’s sexism,” she said. “It reinforces the culture they are seemingly trying to fight against.”
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