This is the equivalent of invoking hitler every time you don't like what your neighborhood association does. This type of rhetoric does not help the cause, it just makes us sound infantile and unreasonable. It disengages discourse. And is kind of silly.

Thus, your opinion is - shall we say - uninformed? Yea. Your "I'll never be enslaved by the American Taliban" due to my sex" privilege is noted.

And uninformed.

Your bias is noted... and uniformed.

Comparing denial of reproductive rights to a neighborhood association is far sillier.

Since you are apparently in no position to become pregnant, your opinion is not based on personal experience or potentialities.

It's neither hyperbolic nor BS. I advise listening to what is being said.

And I think it hurts the cause of reproductive freedom to make on over-the-top comparison to slavery.

That argument taps into existing cultural acceptance of ending a life, and short-circuits anti-abortionist rhetoric about murder without getting into perpetual parsings about timing of life-beginning and the moment when rights of personhood are bestowed by culture.

Abortion is a self-defense, and the things that are defended against are the consequences of subjugation of a person's reproductive functions to the will of society. What is the effect of a fancy word like subjugation if not enduring the burdens of enslavement to the will of others?

That's like saying you support ISIS if you drink sugary sodas or you're a pedophile if you own guns or you're a rapist for going over the speed limit in a school zone.

Those are two vastly separate issues and I don't see how putting shocking labels on people or changing the definition of things helps. Slavery is wrong, denying women the right to certain medical procedures is wrong but they are not one in the same and as far as I'm aware none of the so-called "pro-life" people are trying to forcefully breed women so they can turn their future children into slaves.

FORCING sex and childbearing on women is what anti-abortion/anti-contraception and pro-rape politicians want. It's slavery. Full stop. Disagree all you want. Doesn't change anything.

but if you want to call someone speeding in a school zone a rapist, so be it but it doesn't make it true and before you take what I said out of context here's what I originally said.

I guess calling abortion providers murderers is an accurate depiction, then?

The RW has held the megaphone for so long, womens rights activists can't get heard unless they up the level of rhetoric to match that of the subjugators.

I will allow it.

No and why should pro-women rights activists resort to RW extremist tactics?

Like Fisk, Howard, Spelman, Tuskegee?

Because the white slave masters raped their female slaves, and produced half-breed children. And because the children were half-white, the slave masters wanted to send some of them to college, and there were no colleges for Black people.

In fact, for many years it was illegal for a white person to teach a slave to read.

Women today get as about much support or protection under the law as those female slaves did. OK maybe a little more but not much. They're basically subjected to the "too bad, so sad - sucks to be you - what did you to to tempt him?" attitude by lawmakers and law enforcement alike. Then, if they get pregnant, those same want women to be forced to carry and give birth. Much like the female negro slaves. There's really not a heck of a lot of difference. I agree w/ the article I put in the OP: scratch the surface of the vehement anti-abortion/anti-contraception, pro-rape contingent and that's what's underneath. Basically the humanity of women and any agency they would otherwise have as humans is totally disregarded and they are thought to be of no use in this world other than as incubators and servants at male convenience.

It's not ridiculous at all - it's what is happening - it's the basis, IMO of the war on women. Their human rights are being thwarted and denied in the same way female slaves were - and for the same reason.

Sexual and reproductive slavery for women, and slave labor is what Republicans want to "take their country back" to. Make no mistake - slavery is an ideal to be pursued with conservatives. It's something they dearly want to get back to.

Just making a historical point.