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LeopoldBloom Obviously, a majority of the pro-life politicians are gonna be men, because the majority of politicians are men. There's also the significant confounding variable that Republicans skew more towards voting men in, since they care a lot less about gender diversity, and pro-lifers are kinda stuck with the Republican Party whether they like it or not.
If you look at the actual voting public though, the gender gap on abortion is actually pretty slim -- in some specific cases, even non-existent.
Aside from all that, I have pro-lifers in my family who are vehemently against sexism in general & really are just concerned about the rights of fetuses. The problem is that they have moral values that are axiomatically different to ours. For us, life is -- on a moral level -- about sentience, while for them, life is morally about DNA and the soul. Honestly, it's not entirely disconnected from the difference between vegans and non-vegans, though it's obviously not a 1:1 comparison for a variety of reasons. It sucks that this has to be a morally complex issue, but unfortunately moral complexity is just a part of political life and we have to learn to live with that in some form.
Or just keep accusing the other side of being sexist and hope it works. It very well may lmao, I'm not even pretending to have the moral high ground here. Do whatever you want.
