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    • What more do we need to call opponents of reproductive choice anti-woman?

    By No Such Thing As Blasphemy • • 11 comments
    Haters, go home

    I have brought up problems caused by restricted access to abortion for women in the past. It makes women fall into poverty. It also costs women’s lives.

    Now, a new study finds that women denied abortion are also more likely to be domestically abused and to be on public assistance.

    While I am cautioned that I should not call the (paradoxically named) “pro-life” camp anti-woman because rhetoricians on the other side call abortion providers baby killers, I am not persuaded by this. Because the data back me up. I don’t think it is a stretch to call a movement than pushes women into poverty, increases the likelihood that they be victims of domestic abuse, increases the likelihood that they need public assistance, and increases their mortality, anti-woman.

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    Article by: No Such Thing As Blasphemy

    I was raised in the Islamic world. By accident of history, the plague that is entanglement of religion and government affects most Muslim majority nations a lot worse the many Christian majority (or post-Christian majority) nations. Hence, I am quite familiar with this plague. I started doubting the faith I was raised in during my teen years. After becoming familiar with the works of enlightenment philosophers, I identified myself as a deist. But it was not until a long time later, after I learned about evolutionary science, that I came to identify myself as an atheist. And only then, I came to know the religious right in the US. No need to say, that made me much more passionate about what I believe in and what I stand for. Read more...