(06-30-2019, 08:48 AM)Dartz Wrote: I mean, where the fuck is the line drawn? Or do we, y'know, just lock pregnant women in a oubliette for 9 months or something?
That's what some of them want. That, and a nice collection of babies to adopt with no memory of where they came from. Seriously, a lot of 'Christian' groups have been taught for over a century that they are doing Gods work by taking the children of minorities away and raising them 'proper'. At the same time though, it's not really done for the children. Their fate after birth doesn't actually MATTER to the people that follow this dogma. It's a large part of why they will move heaven and earth to force a birth, but refuse to offer any support afterwards. Nazi Germany was fond of blond jewish girls they'd rename Eva. Here in Australia, we had the Stolen Generation, which was decades of indigenous children being taken by force from their parents, legally, and then transferring them into an orphanage system with a nightmarish death rate of children under five. To this day, there are people that will argue, with a smile on their face, that those people were doing the will of God and the Australian Government made a terrible mistake in admitting it was wrong. I suspect you can think of a variant in Ireland Dartz.
That's what's so terrifying about this. It is a system of belief that has infected countless European descended cultures for centuries. Blatant cruelty, with the people behind it so blinded by their fanaticism they can't see it. Once upon a time, before widespread birth control and sex education, it was often simply a matter of controlling the facilities for unwed pregnant people, refuse to offer any support if they wanted to keep the child, then use the orphanages to cherry pick the 'pretty children'. Most of the modern cruelty from places like Alabama comes from people trying to restore those old systems in some way, because they were raised to believe such things are Right and Proper.