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I’m pro-life, just not right now

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Mark Warawa, MP for Langley,  indicates he is pro-life but thinks the economy is more important right now.

This opinion is definitely out there, and I responded to it in the Sun not too long ago.

It’s not an inspiring position and I don’t agree, however, I understand where Warawa and others are coming from.

The thing is–as any pro-lifer will know–some things are not our choice. And there’s a momentum out there in the ether for pro-lifers right now. Not sure why, but it’s there. I say go with it. And don’t worry about debating more than one thing at the same time. That doesn’t mean everyone has to engage in every debate, so Warawa is free to focus on the fiscal. (Maybe he needs a little Tony Robbins to get his pro-life game on, feel the power, that kind of thing.)

The right to sex for pleasure

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A right that’s not exactly enshrined in UN constitutions–yet. Joyce Arthur, well-known pro-choice activist, comments on the National Post web site:

Yes Matt W, let’s err on the side of life – WOMEN’S lives. Because the right to abortion is not about a woman’s right to choose, it’s about her right to LIFE – which means far more than just mere physical survival.  

Behind your view is the assumption that women are obligated to have babies just because they are capable of it. Not so. Women can never enjoy full human rights or equality unless they can control their fertility. That includes the right to have sex for pleasure, which carries a risk of pregnancy regardless of use of birth control. So abortion must be available as a backup.

The moral status of the fetus, when life begins etc., does not matter, because women need and will have abortions regardless – even women who think abortion is murder. Abortion is legal because it’s widely practiced regardless of any laws, in every society, in every time. Half of all women in the world will have an abortion at some point in their lives. But 68,000 women die every year and 5 million are injured from illegal, unsafe abortion. So please, let’s err on the side of WOMEN’S lives and keep abortion legal.

Her idea of “rights” reminds me of another quote from a different context:

We understand that casual sex is dear to you, but staying alive is dear to us.

–Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee

Who is honestly going to stand up for our “right” to casual sex (and hey, while we’re at it, can we enshrine that it be really good sex too?) over someone else’s life? Guess Joyce Arthur just did. (It’s also a twisted sense of pleasure that sees women heading to a clinic to put their feet in stirrups for invasive surgery, all as a matter of routine “choice”.)

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Tanya adds: You know, I think a group of Canadian men should rise up (in this same ridiculous fashion as Joyce Arthur and her ilk) and complain feverishly about male equality because they are unable to get pregnant. And they should also revolt against the injustice of how badly it hurts when they get kicked in the groin. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to belittle the issue, but these exaggerations of Canadian women being “obligated to have babies just because they are capable of it” are so tiresome.

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Véronique adds: Well, if a quote ever summed up how illogical the pro-choice position is, this one would take the prize: “Abortion is legal because it’s widely practiced regardless of any laws, in every society, in every time. ”

So is rape, Ms. Arthur, so is rape…

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Véronique, commenting on the comments: The comments about rape — why it is wrong and how it compares (or not) with abortion are interesting. Is rape wrong because it upholds the right to sex for pleasure over other rights or because it denies women the right to control their own bodies? To me, both arguments merge into one as they both involve a sense of individual entitlement over someone else’s body, be it for power, sexual gratification or whatnot. I wish I had more time to explore some of the implications of this but for the time being, I will just ask what makes something wrong: motive or substance? In other words, does it really matter whether a woman is raped because the rapist didn’t respect her right to physical integrity or because he felt that his right to sex for pleasure was paramount? This line of thinking is characteristic of our times where nothing is just plain wrong.

All this being said, my point about rape was more specific to Joyce Arthur’s argument that abortion must be legal because people have been doing it throughout cultures and generations. If the fact that people do it therefore it must be legal/moral/ethical, then it makes a host of deviant behaviours legal/ethical/moral. Rape and murder come to mind.

And I am not even going to touch the issue of whether legality means morality and vice-versa.

History of abortion in America

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 This article is completely fascinating:

Abortion was so extensive in the mid-1800s that The New York Times called it “The Evil of the Age . . . The enormous amount of medical malpractice [a euphemism for abortion] that exists and flourishes, almost unchecked, in the city of New York, is a theme for most serious consideration. Thousands of human beings are thus murdered before they have seen the light of this world.” But the abortion rate began to fall after the Civil War as a nationwide pro-life movement gathered strength.

That movement included the largest women’s organization of the era, the WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union), as well as the YMCA and YWCA (Young Men’s or Women’s Christian Association), various Societies for the Suppression of Vice, and, by the end of the century, the Salvation Army. Many doctors were involved; unlike today, the American Medical Association was a staunch opponent of abortion, which it dubbed “unwarrantable destruction of human life.” (emphasis mine)

Women’s groups, doctors, and charitable organizations working together. A vision for the future, truly.

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Tanya adds: Here is what I gather may have become the shortfall of the modern pro-life movement:

Laws against abortion assisted the pro-life movement but were not its primary focus of attention. ”

The writer concludes by saying abortion legislation is not a pointless venture “but time and money spent on providing and promoting compassionate alternatives saves more lives.”

Today, I’m not sure the general public views the pro-life movement as primarily compassionate. We can blame that on whoever we like (the media, the pro-abortion advocates or Morgentaler himself) but we are the only ones who can change our public image for the better.

When you’re living in a house of cards

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If they said sex selection abortion was wrong–well, all hell would break loose. Quite literally, by their own description:

Media campaigns to discourage sex-selective abortions sometimes take on imagery that condemns or vilifies all abortion services: television and print advertisements feature well-formed fetuses left in wells, lakes and drains; billboard ads use “feticide” and other loaded words that personify the fetus. In parts of India, fundamentalist religious leaders are also becoming actively involved with the sex-selection campaigns and are using for the efforts as a tool to restrict abortion for any reason.

The effect of these campaigns is that obtaining legitimate abortion services can be more difficult for the women who already have difficulty accessing safe services: poor, rural, and less educated women.

Correction: The effect of these campaigns would mean they’d be out of a job and more women would… live. So please, keep killing off your girls–just lay back and think of “women’s rights.”

(Thanks to C-FAM for publicizing this story.)

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Rebecca adds: I will never understand why aborting a baby because it is unplanned, because it will be expensive, because it will interfere with your education, because it might not be healthy, because you don’t want stretch marks, because you’ve decided you don’t love its father anymore, because you’re, well, tokophobic – all that is ok, but aborting a baby because it is a she – that’s outrageous, barbaric, and must be forbidden.

Don’t get me wrong, I think aborting a baby because it’s the “wrong” sex is appalling – but no more so than any other elective abortion.

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Andrea adds: Totally agreed, Rebecca. But I find the lengths to which feminists will go to protect abortion over and above absolutely anything else quite astounding. A missing female demographic–pshaw. Nothing compared to losing “abortion rights,” right?

Still love her

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Sarah Palin on the birth of her grandson: 

We are over the moon with the arrival of this healthy, beautiful baby,” Governor Palin said. “The road ahead for this young couple will not be easy, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Bristol and Levi are committed to accomplish what millions of other young parents have accomplished, to provide a loving and secure environment for their child. They are both hard workers, they’re very strong, and have faith they’ve made the right decision in setting aside their own interests to make this child their highest priority,” the governor said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained.

Nothing worth having is easy. True enough.

2008 in review

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2008 was an exceptional year. Here’s the way I see it:

December 2007: ProWomanProLife starts up. We work on mottos and mission and setting up the site. Over new year’s last year we pulled together colour schemes and the photo we would use, settling on our mountain woman because of the view into the distance: We want to call women to see the beauty of life in the long term, not in a short term crisis situation.

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When doctors scare patients

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Doctors advised these parents to abort, twice.

Last year we were still on a knife edge thinking things would go wrong. But now he’s out of the woods we are delighted that 2009 will be Kai’s year.”

A spokesman from Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust said they cannot comment on individual cases.

But he added: “Where abnormalities are spotted in the scans, our multi-disciplinary team will always offer prospective families the full facts and options as presented at the time.

I think you know by now where I stand on abortion in general. But what I think is worse are doctors who callously tell women what they don’t know for sure, such that many women barely endure their pregnancies in fear and worry.

And speaking of extinct

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Yawn. Yaaaaawwwwww—-nnnnnn.

“I think the proper reaction to a beauty pageant these days is to be bored by it. I would have thought that old version of feminism, which was violently opposed to lipstick and high heels, had died out by now. It’s an extinct image of feminism — that you can’t be both frivolous and serious or care about clothes and read books at the same time. And, in a way, it’s sort of depressing that these same old-fashioned battles keep on being recycled.” …Take heart, sisters, for there is a new breed of feminist out there that is reinventing the ideology. Subscribing to the original feminist theories of equality (equal pay, equal rights and the importance of a right to choose), they pick the fights that mean something to them, ignoring the elements of feminist politics they find irrelevant.

You know what I’m bored by? Pro-abortion, “right to choose” feminists. How about having a new idea, ladies?

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Tanya rolls her eyes: “original feminist theories…right to choose.” Let’s ask an original feminist, Susan B. Anthony :

She blamed men, laws and the “double standard” for driving women to abortion because they had no other options. (”When a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged.” 1869) She believed, as did many of the feminists of her era, that only the achievement of women’s equality and freedom would end the need for abortion.”

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