I’m always grateful when any paper publishes a piece by yours truly, but in today’s Post someone edited my use of the word “pro-choice” and made it into “anti-abortion,” which obviously has the opposite meaning. Makes for a tricky read, and so I thought I’d post a little addendum by yours truly, here. I don’t think the piece is online so I can’t link to it here.
(Update: The corrected online version is here.)
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I read your article in the National Post this morning and loved it. I went to their site so I could find and share the article, but it wasn’t there. Is it available somewhere else?
Thank you for being such an eloquent voice.
Found it!
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/05/02/andrea-mrozek-no-shame-in-creating-life/
Just out of curiosity, Andrea, did you intend to describe yourself as pro-choice? The only use of anti abortion in the article that I see is “as a woman who is anti-abortion,…”
Just a little confused as to how they altered your article. I thought it was really well done. I also notice that there are no comments attached to it, which is really unusual for an article in the Post about abortion. Let’s just chalk that up to that the promoters of legal abortion are so bestruck by your wit and wisdom that they have absolutely nothing to say in reply.
I just read the article and I love it. So well written, Andrea! My favourite lines: “It’s a philosophy that allows women to trample on others — including their own children — to pursue other goals. It’s a philosophy that tells women and men that they have the right to put themselves at the centre of the universe. In short, it’s selfish. We are told that such selfishness is a virtue. Finishing university offers the virtue of making a real contribution to the world, which, we are implicitly told, having children is not.”
Exactly. The same problem, I believe, resurfaces again after women do choose life for their children. The battle over selfishness is nowhere near won. The choice to put one’s children before oneself is a constant struggle. Among other things, it has to do with how present a mother is for her children, versus how much work she takes on outside the home. It has to do with how flexible a parent is to accept the life decisions of a growing or adult child, versus that parent’s own dreams and hopes for that child. The struggle to be selfless is a lifelong struggle (made all the harder, as you point out, by a culture that treats selfishness as a virtue).
In our intro you mean they altered your use of the word pro life to anti abortion…not pro choice