{"id":321675,"date":"2024-11-15T12:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321675"},"modified":"2024-11-14T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T02:22:10","slug":"post-election-panic-50-years-abortion-womanhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/post-election-panic-50-years-abortion-womanhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-election panic: The result of 50 years of pervasive lies about abortion and womanhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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California Congresswoman Katie Porter is facing backlash<\/a> following her post-election appearance on “The Issue Is” podcast, during which she revealed that her 12-year-old daughter was crying over Donald Trump’s win because she is afraid she won’t be able to have an abortion if she is raped.<\/p>\n

But Porter and her daughter are not the only females reacting so strongly to the election results, which is a sign of how so many American women have come to believe that their safety and equality are tied up in the ability to kill their children. It’s also a sign that as a society, Americans have come to believe that killing is a valid ‘solution’ to certain societal problems.<\/p>\n

In fact, there’s a small movement of women who say they will no longer have sex with men because, as 21-year-old Michaele Thomas put it<\/a>, “Young men expect sex, but they also want us to not be able to have access to abortion. They can\u2019t have both. Young women don\u2019t want to be intimate with men who don\u2019t fight for women\u2019s rights; it\u2019s showing they don\u2019t respect us.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, Michaele, having sex with you and then expecting you to abort your baby<\/em> is a sign that men don’t respect you. The majority of abortions\u00a0in the United States \u2014\u00a0about 87%<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 are obtained by\u00a0unmarried<\/em> women. And let’s think critically for a moment: is it realistic to believe that young men who are just using women for sex<\/em> actually want<\/em> them to give birth to the babies that are conceived, when those men will be obligated to pay child support<\/a> \u2014 which is an average<\/em> of nearly $9k annually per child? (No, it’s not realistic.) In fact, it is a sad fact that homicide<\/a> is one of the leading causes of death for pregnant and postpartum women \u2014 frequently committed by an intimate partner (the baby’s father). Men have, for decades, used abortion as their way out<\/em> of fatherhood and commitment.<\/p>\n

Frankly, the pervasiveness of the idea that a woman needs abortion access<\/em> if she is sexually active is proof of at least<\/em> one of these things: 1) that the much-touted cure-all of contraception can fail, and 2) that women have been been using abortion as birth control on more than rare occasions.<\/p>\n

Using abortion as birth control<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, on election night, I went to pick up my daughter from water polo practice, and she’s 12, and she sat in the car, and she was crying,\u201d Porter explained.<\/p>\n

Her daughter told her, “Mom, Trump won… Trump’s gonna win, and what if I get raped and I need to have an abortion?”<\/p>\n

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NEW: CA Rep. Katie Porter says her 12 year old daughter came home crying after Trump won, said she was afraid of not being able to get an abortion if she got r*ped.<\/p>\n

Porter is an awful mother assuming this is true.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to pick up my daughter from water polo practice and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/5qxGvSayI7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n