Excellent article by Jonathan Kay in today’s Post.
One of the lamentable results of the culture wars is that women have been taught to regard abortion — a medically profound event that either kills, or pre-empts, a unique, genetically determinate human being–as if it were merely an act of feminist self-empowerment. …
A “right to choose” means nothing if women don’t also have a right to be informed.
This is the height of hypocrisy of self-described “women’s rights” advocates who advocate for unfettered access to abortion. I have asked different abortion advocates on three different occasions what precisely abortion does and they avoided the question, defaulting to “I don’t know” or on one radio show simply saying “it is what it is.” Abortion “is what it is”. (Does that depend on your definition of “is”?)
I say hiding behind euphemisms isn’t a way to advance women’s rights. And for that, I’m called a misogynist.
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Brigitte says ‘me too’: You can call me a misogynist if you want. I’m with Andrea.
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This is indeed an excellent article. The word “choice” implies that there is more than one option. Abortion advocates have made the word “choice” their own domain. There is no such thing as informed choice where abortion is concerned, because if women were fully informed about what really happens in abortion and the physical and emotional fall-out of it, then they would likely not give it another thought. Unfortunately, the clientele of abortion clinics are often teenagers who think they are invincible and above the possibility of complications. Even if they were fully informed, who knows if it would make a difference? A huge cultural shift has to take place, and we just have to keep working at it.
Not to be argumentative, but I find teenages are often easier to communicate the reality of abortion to than the wisened older women. And the teenagers I’ve had the honor of encountering are admirable, courageous, brave women trying so hard to decipher in a crazy world what the ultimate right, best thing to do is. Our culture isn’t helpful when all it pushes is the “simple” solution of abortion which ends up causing a downward spiral for these women, into denial, guilt, depression.
And furthermore, what of the rights of unborn women? That ought to stump the feminists pretty good, to know their future are being aborted.