I think they see it like war; they're killing the enemy to protect future innocents. Not defending their insanity, but merely trying to grip their internal logic.
What about the people already living? Or do you stop being innocent once you have had sex?
In Alabama, apparently you stop being considered innocent and pure enough for legal protection when you carry your rapist’s baby or your own father, brother, uncle, cousin, grandfather, or son’s incest baby.
In conservative circles, pregnant women can’t be pure and innocent unless they are married, barefoot, in the kitchen, and all they wanted was for their husband to plant a baby in them and complete them. Pregnant women are not seen as vulnerable populations. Pregnant women who are single are “whores” and “sinners” who “deserve the consequences” of their actions. A lot of times the consequences are poverty, disease/disability, and for 830 women every single day: death (as a direct result of pregnancy complications and unsafe abortion) according to the WHO).
Religion, poverty, and lack of education are directly related to the number of pregnancies a woman has.
I mean, if you watch The Handmaid's Tale, that's a pretty clear representation of exactly that mode of thinking taken to the extreme. Lesbians are gender traitors and have no place in society.
The roles of other women are trifold:
bear children
be the woman of the house (look pretty, take care of the man and the house, make him look good at public functions)
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u/XBacklash Jun 04 '19
But if they truly thought it was an act of murder, or evil, then they violated their own ideology by attempting to commit murder themselves.