Reply #6: gold star for kentuck

[gkhouston]

It is a way of saying women are not equal. Not only are we less important than men, our actual lives and health are held to be less valuable than the potential, unrealized life inside us. For a lot of people, though, being anti-choice seems to be about wanting to make women "pay" for their sexual freedom -- apparently women are not ever supposed to have sex unless they're willing to have a baby, regardless of their financial circumstances or health. I often wonder if those people would hold the same belief if humans were a species where gestation randomly altered between male and female, such that you didn't know who was going to actually "cook" the baby when you had intercourse. ;-)