The Role of Patriarchal Religion in Forced Pregnancy and the Subordination of Women

Theoretical Framework

In the United States, the author argues that patriarchal religion provides the engagement of three mechanisms–Christian worldview in law-making to reverse legal secularism, male domination, and pronatalism. Therefore, the author proposes the guiding theoretical framework of Ambivalent Sexism Theory to build on an existing foundation of knowledge between these mechanisms and how the centrality of patriarchy has a long-standing relationship between power and influence over American culture and society. This framework will guide the research on the power-related norms and ideologies about the traditional role of women in the family that limit women's career development by identifying them as obedient and dependent on men (Chen et al., 2009). It will also highlight the extent to which the three mechanisms, dictated by religious discourse, are a patriarchal religious contributing factor in political decisions that affect women in an economic, familial, and social way. Moreover, it shows how religious rights have shifted the dynamic of human rights in discourse to serve its role in political arguments, law, and decision-making.