Got this letter in the Post today, in response to Jon Kay’s piece:
I was taught that abortion was a right through years of schooling. It takes years of reading to discover that offering or withholding an abortion has nothing to do with women’s rights and freedoms at all, and that the mantra “my body, my choice,” isn’t true.
It is my goal to educate on this: Abortion is not a right and it does not enhance women’s lives. Once we disconnect abortion from “rights talk” and other assorted euphemisms about “reproductive choice,” we’ll be able to truly and compassionately assist women who feel trapped in an unwanted pregnancy.
Andrea Mrozek, founding director, ProWomanProLife.org, Ottawa.
Now this education is going to take tons of time, because many of the old guard feminists are still teaching. Hey, that’s OK. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
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Tanya adds: Old guard feminists sure do have a particular point of view. Just today, I was told (by a Baby Boomer), “You can’t know, Tanya, because you weren’t around when women weren’t allowed to open their own bank accounts.” Somehow, to some of them, sexual equality and so-called “reproductive rights” are intrinsically linked. To them, it’s all part of the same fight.
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(I couldn’t open a bank-account here because I don’t ‘work’ – as in ‘where do I get my money?’ – but that’s a whole other issue…)
I have never felt that the ‘old-guard’ represented me or my needs. Even as a teen, I was embarassed by their ‘whining’. I have never, honestly, felt hard done by because of my gender. It has always seemed to me that men face much the same kind of problems…. they don’t always get what they want, and not everybody likes them. (Maybe its because I have 6 brothers?)
You are sooo right! All that talk about “rights” is nothing more than a smoke-screen, we have Pierre Trudeau and his Charter of Rights (that says NOTHING about responsibilities!) to thank for that.
Same as that stupid cr*p about marriage being a right. Homosexuals (of both genders) try to foist that on us. If Marriage was a “right”, what somebody can”t find a mate? Does he or she request that the state appoint a partner for him or her? What about the rights of that partner?