Why Satanists may be the last, best hope to save abortion..

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Texas women are considering a sex strike to protest the law. Basically, the aim is to turn all men in Texas into incels, even if they oppose Abbott and his agenda, until the law is repealed.

So, protest a ban on a procedure by refusing to participate in the action neccesary for the banned procedure to be required?

Sounds like something of an "own goal"...

There are Satanists out there who actually do worship Satan as a for real entity. They generally aren't public about their beliefs.

While I’m a bit uncomfortable talking about this in a thread with so much Satan discussion, here goes.

It comes down to the real life reasons women end up having abortions. Without writing a book, lack of comprehensive, affordable healthcare and lack of proper information about conception top the list. So when healthcare and information access are increased, abortion goes down dramatically. When poverty is decreased, abortion goes down dramatically. Address these factors, and you pretty much solve the issue. You not only decrease abortion dramatically, but you also improve the outcomes for pregnant women and babies across the board. We have an embarrassingly high maternal and infant mortality rate for a developed nation; I don’t know why the pro-life political movement doesn’t seem to care about those babies. There will always be some abortions that are more elective, but those women also have the resources to get their abortions somewhere else if need be, so you really can’t affect those outcomes. You also can’t affect the abortions done out of medical necessity unless we get the medical profession to change its terminology; even removal of a dead fetus enters the data as an abortion. The proof the measures work is in the Netherlands, which has a lower abortion rate than most countries where it is illegal.

You should also be aware that I’ve had two different friends who have said they would never have had abortions if it had been legal at the time. They were underage and forced into it by adults. One had no idea that what her boyfriend talked her into was sex.

Societal attitudes towards out of wedlock birth also factor in, as does making it possible for teen mothers to complete their education by providing free childcare.

As Christians all these other measures should be things we support. They are part of caring for our neighbors.

In a heterosexual male dominated world, women have withheld sex to get their way many times throughout history. Usually it's to end fighting or a war, but can be for other political motives. In parts of the world where women don't have much say in things, withholding sex is the most powerful statement they can make to get men to change their minds and do what they want. Effective.

If you're uncomfortable with having this be buried in "so much Satan discussion," perhaps you could re-post the following in a separate new thread in PPR?

Isn't there a site rule about generalisations such as this?

I consider every baby a gift from Jesus.

So do I, but sometimes real life can get quite complicated, and sometimes trying to do right by person A harms persons B, C and D. It isn’t always clear what God wants from us or what the “right” answer is.

Well the Bible is real clear about murder."Thou Shall Not Murder"

Does the bible specifically define abortion as murder?

Well the Bible is real clear about murder."Thou Shall Not Murder"

Well my church teaches that God wondefully makes babies in the womb so i would say yes.There is a verse in the Bible like in possibly Jeremiah that says that.....that God wonderfully creates babies in the womb so yes the Bible defines unborn babies as actual human beings.