An all-male panel
Hmmm. Something odd here. Ohio Capital Journal July 25:
Male anti-abortion religious leaders mull murder charges for pregnant people at a national event.
An all-male panel of anti-abortion religious leaders from around the country met Friday night to discuss the strategies that should be used to end abortion in every state at any stage of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape and incest, and with criminal punishment for the pregnant person in line with existing criminal penalties for murder, which includes the death penalty.
Odd. We are told the sex of the people discussing the strategies but not the sex of the people they are planning to punish and kill.
Why’s that? Why is it ok to specify men and males but not women and females?
Friday’s speakers included Wisconsin-based Operation Save America Director Jason Storms and former OSA director Rusty Thomas, along with Arizona-based End Abortion Now communications director Zachary Conover, Georgia Right to Life President Ricardo Davis, and Gabriel Rench, a member of the extremist Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho.
How does the reporter, Kelcie Moseley-Morris, know all those speakers are men? Is it because of the names? Jason, Rusty, Zachary, Ricardo, Gabriel? Names are unmistakable but pregnancy is not?
The panel focused on legislation they call “equal protection” bills, such as Georgia’s House Bill 496, also called the Georgia Prenatal Equal Protection Act, which was introduced in February but did not advance in the state’s House of Representatives. An “equal protection” bill, by their definition, is one that adds criminal penalties to a pregnant person for the intentional termination of a pregnancy at any stage, with no exceptions for rape or incest. The law would make an exception if the abortion was performed to prevent the pregnant person’s “imminent death or great bodily injury.”
It’s a funny thing, this. Surely the point of saying these are all men is that it’s part of the never-ending war on women – that it’s men forcing women to stay pregnant against their will – that it’s men taking rights away from women – that it’s men forcing physical labor and pain on women – that it’s men forcing women to do something that men will never have to do. But that point is thrown away if you then go on to claim that pregnancy is something that happens to “people” rather than specifically women. Why make the point that this is men working to enslave women and then cancel your own point by pretending the victims are people in general?
H/t Mike B.
Just another example of genderist incoherence and inconsistancy. They know patriarchy is “bad,” but somehow beieve that gender ideology can “smash” it. They don’t seem to grasp that their reliance on sexist, patriarchal gender norms to determine who gets to be a woman or a man supports, rather than undermines, those same patriarchal values. They can’t risk acknowledging biology at all because they have tried to ignore it all along. Sperm and ova are just too irredemably binary to mention.
I’m guessing that at least some of those men are Black, otherwise the would have used “White” as an additional epithet alongside “male” and “men.”
The pattern really gives the game away. Men always men, but women’s things are renamed people’s things; it’s only the the female sex that is being obfuscated or made invisible. Oddly enough, replacing women with generic ‘people’ is a tactic that serves to erase them as a distinct and identifiable category within ‘people’.
Definitely a feature, not a bug
Something else that’s quite odd in its way: these men are ostentatious about their Christian faith and evidently claim it as justification for their campaign against women who seek abortions, and yet nowhere in the Bible is there anything like an explicit condemnation of abortion.
Sorry, forgot to mention this: the article as originally published is available on the Wayback Machine.