I read over my post again and am wondering where this diatribe about abortion came from.
There is a cultural war going on and women are caught squarely in the middle because they are essential to our future.
On one side is the Western Left who wish to thwart nature. They want sex without consequences. The result is increasingly intractable STDs and declining birthrates, which must be made up for by importing people from places that do not value our freedoms and culture.
On the other side is Islamism. They blasphemously claim that God stipulates that women should be held as ignorant, disenfranchised, breeding livestock.
If Western civilization is to survive — and indeed be worthy of survival — we must obey the Laws of Nature. These are to be discovered, not made. If we continue with behaviors that essentially select ourselves for extinction, well, what do you expect?
I am not arguing that abortion should be made illegal; I never brought the subject up. IMO, abortion is one of those Leftist means to an end that can be significantly curbed merely by exposure.
Culturally, we also need to consider what attributes contribute to our survival and which undermine it. Those who engage in behaviors that demonstrably threaten us all should at the very least be stigmatized for it — just as is the case now for racists.
If you are making babies with multiple women and abandoning them, you should be shamed for it. As it stands now, if anything, such men are lionized, while men who eschew promiscuity are often regarded as freaks.
I appreciate your excellant, reasoned and articulate post.
Much more clear than my diatribe.