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I’m going to go for “sociological and political.” The OP is contending that abuse of rights calls for abolition of said rights. This is not a democratic view. A citizen of a true democratic state has the right to use and abuse his rights as he (or she) pleases. I have no idea how you could argue otherwise (at least as long as you are including “political in the mix).

Besides that, the fact that people abuse a right does not make the right a bad thing. Case in point: divorce. Divorce is not a bad thing. People abuse it and tend to make a mess out of it, which is a bad thing. But it still remains that divorce itself is necessary and should not be abolished.

I agree that Women’s Lib – a distinct movement from first wave feminism/the suffrage movement, by the way – has yielded some less than stellar results. But your solution fails to address a lot of major political and sociological issues.