Merkel got degrees and was in academia, you say? Did she do anything noteworthy other than being there while female? Or did she jump straight into politics and stay there? (Spoiler: Yes, she jumped right into politics. The Berlin Wall fell and she got in on the ground floor of the East German political scene and stayed there.)
Regarding the JustSomeAntifas bit...Wow. I always knew that politically, abortion was about dispensing with "undesirables" and using women's health as an excuse (they always get so enraged when you ask clinics to measure up to minimum standards of health and safety for the women, I wonder why that is), but I didn't fully realize the goal was to go back to Iron Age, pre-Christian pagan bullshit where children could be disposed of if their parents rejected them.
Why does this "progress" so often mean a return to the bad old days when poverty and crushing debt were the rule and not the exception, women and children didn't enjoy full rights compared to men (or men in dresses), and a handful of greedy despots controlled everything "for the good of the lesser people" and their whims overruled observable reality as far as you were concerned?