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But the baby bonus was touted as a way the government was helping families and working mothers- very feminist ideas.

Working mothers, sure, families, no. Not that feminism is against families per se, but imo the last governemnt was All About harking back to 50s ideals of Old Skool Family Values.

I think that in some cases that abortion should be the way to go to prevent the suffering of the child.

Ah, ok, that makes sense. I think having an abortion against her will would have to be an unbelievably horrible experience for a preganant women (admitedly, knowing your baby was going to die anyway would make a difference), so I'd tend to be against it, but I can definitely see where you're coming from. I assumed you weren't in favour of compulsory abortions for everyone :)

And yet I have never heard of any feminist organisation complaining about the "Men's" Domestic Violence hotline and the fact all of the advertising for it was aimed at heterosexual men

Yeah, I'm not denying that the vocal feminist organisations have some Serious Issues, especially in terms of heterosexism and racism. Did I mention that people suck? :/

Also, thankyou for speaking up, I think it's vitally important to test ones ideas against people who disagree with them (or at least, don't agree with them entirely) It's too easy to surround youraself with people who agree with you and let your ideas get stagnant.