Why anti-abortion laws are a threat to all of us

Comment published on New York Times online blog in response to opinion essay by Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall, “Why the fight over abortion is unrelenting,” May 29, ,2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/opinion/abortion-restrictions-politics.html#commentsContainer&permid=100698240:100698240:

The anti-abortion cause is not about "life," and the "rights" of primitive organisms.  That it is, ideologically or allegorically, about the "protection" of such innocence (ultimately innocent is what has no consciousness let alone will) just reveals that it is a patriarchal discourse whose real object is the exercise of a form of social power.  

Conservatives say: enjoyment has a price, and relationships must be based not on choice but obligation.  Little noticed is that their opposition to sex outside of marriage is also an opposition to love.  Romantic love is based on desire, not duty.  There is no obedient form of love, which knows no normality or propriety.  Marriage as an institution is not endangered by excess sex, but is called into question by  practices like love that tend to call people and things into question.  Marriages and sexual congresses are nearly as old as evolutionary biology, one of the sciences that for many Americans explain everything.  The real danger is a world without love and its radical inventiveness that is also found in art and procedures of thinking creatively.   

The anti-abortionists want people to be forced to obey authority.  They want love, sex, desire, enjoyment, and creativity to be subjected to command.  The reason this cause is so important to conservatives is that they promote a society in which people obey authority.  This also means students believe the "truth," the poor are punished, and workers obey bosses.  

That's it in essence.  As in slavery, bosses control bodies.