{"id":2601,"date":"2022-05-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2022-05-08T00:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T05:08:45","slug":"atheists-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2022\/05\/atheists-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists vindicated as not sexist when abortion comes under attack in US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Remember when zealots tried to smear the atheist community as sexist and misogynistic<\/a><\/strong>? I do! We would get endless blogposts, articles and even stories in the press saying the atheist movement was rife with misogyny, bringing up a couple of anecdotes taken out of context (or YouTube videos where all sensible comments were deleted<\/a> to let the availability heuristic do it’s thing) and get more people outraged and led to believe atheists just wanted to keep women oppressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in 2022, the US Supreme Court has a drafted decision<\/a> that would overturn Roe v Wade<\/em>, the 50-year old decision that effectively allowed women to interrupt their pregnancies in the States \u2014 misogyny has won the war on women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny enough, now that it’s all hands on deck<\/a> (and believe me, it is<\/em>), facts matter again and, would you look at that? Here we have Phil Zuckerman<\/strong> dropping a lot of mind-numbingly statistics on how atheists are consistently and reliably pro-women’s rights<\/a>… which was already pretty common knowledge some 10 years ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those who are most starkly opposed to such regressive, immoral legislation, and most supportive of a woman\u2019s right to decide what goes on in her uterus, are the secular among us<\/a>. Atheists, agnostics, humanists, and the generally postreligious take the most ethically sound, position when it comes to women\u2019s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n

Consider:<\/p>\n