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[–]jkfinn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It seems like this anti-birth control movement is in some ways the end result of the breakdown of the Second Wave under the influence of both the New Age and the Pro-Sex movements. Although there was a lot of positives about feminism’s holistic health approach & practices, it did open itself up to the New Age feelings, personal solution, & individual testimony culture. And the sex-positive women, of course, presented the perfect target for the anti-abortionists. They were everything that right wing women despised (it made no difference to them that this pro-sex movement effectively primarily attacked radical feminism). But all three of these negative outcomes for the WLM might have been avoided or better resisted by an insistence on, or a demand for, not only radical feminist politics, but a clear and binding definition of radical feminism. For all three took advantage of this expanding loophole to gather strength and doing so by ripping off & diluting radical feminism.

PS U.S. Catholics have accepted abortion by a majority margin for decades. It is now at a low of 58% acceptance, but has been as high as 77%., and has, at times, been higher than Protestant acceptance.