I found Lance Schaina’s views on “abortion” to be highly sexist. To refer to an old testament ritual where a woman is ritually unclean for 10 days during, and after, her period is demeaning toward today’s role of women in the world. The view of women as something holy and pure held strong through centuries of oppression, where women were nothing more than objects of reproduction. While men left the house to work, women were held captive by their corsets and their social role as the “moral center” of the household.
To bring back this old idea is to suggest that women are “holy,” not human beings that are equal to men. The obsession with the idea that the menstrual cycle is “holy” and that touching a women during her cycle is unclean also demeans a women’s reproductive freedom and her right of recreational sex against the rights of men, who have no menstrual restrictions. Abortion views aside, women are more than reproductive objects, and have every right to be equal partners in society, menstrual cycle or not. Anyone else have an opposing opinion on this?
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