Sex, Power, and Partisanship by Hector A. Garcia

Author:Hector A. Garcia
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633885158
Publisher: Prometheus Books

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.60

Of one of the movement's leaders, Nancy Campbell, offers, “We look across the Islamic world and we see that they are outnumbering us in their family size, and they are in many places and many countries taking over those nations, without a jihad, just by multiplication” and that “the womb is such a powerful weapon; it's a weapon against the enemy.”61 Perhaps not surprisingly, most (if not all) Americans associated with this movement identify with the Republican Party.

Tying all of this back to political psychology, it follows that those with minds calibrated for male-centrism, higher xenophobia, and focusing on competition with the outside tribe for their place in the gene pool would be most opposed to contraception—an effective barrier to winning fitness competitions.

Indeed, this reason for anti-contraception politics was noticed by Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), a community nurse who became the first president of Planned Parenthood. Notes Sanger,

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