UK writer: Pro-lifers should fix misogyny before banning abortion
by Kelli
It seems to me that there are better ways to tackle the issue of why some women feel they have to terminate otherwise healthy pregnancies; namely, by targeting the communities in which such misogyny is not just tolerated but encouraged, often with threats of violence. It is unacceptable that leaders of these societies go unchallenged, while doctors face court and pregnant women are left with the option of either lying to medical professionals about the reasons for a termination or finding themselves in a back alley with a coat hanger being brandished at them….
For me the issue here is not abortion, though the most simplistic of pro-lifers would like it to be. The real issue is why, here in the UK where we have a supposedly democratic, free and equal society, there are people who think that foetuses deserve not to have a crack at life because they happen to be in possession of two X chromosomes.
Why, in 21st-century Britain, do women seek to abort unborn daughters? And not just that. Why, in a capital city that has female politicians and professors and bankers and chief executives, do supposedly ‘bright’ girls jump at the chance to skip the country so they can warm up beds for mass murderers in Syria? Why are 20,000 female children in this country at risk of their genitals being mutilated at their behest of their own families? How, in a country that prides itself on its pursuit of personal freedom, are so many women being made to live their lives in cages?…
As a Londoner born and bred, I am of the opinion that multiculturalism is a brilliant thing. But women being abused and targeted in the name of religion and ‘culture’ makes my blood boil, and I wish that politicians like [pro-life MP] Fiona Bruce would focus on changing that, rather than trying to alter the law to suit their own religious viewpoints.
~ Bryony Gordon (pictured), railing against pro-lifers for not solving the age-old, worldwide problem of misogyny before trying to pass pro-life laws, The Telegraph, February 23
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
We wish abortion advocates would face the world’s challenges instead of promoting and defending abortion. What they are saying is, ‘we’re going to keep aborting until somebody else makes the world perfect.’
Ah, the old “all pro-life laws are about religion” lie. Thanks for erasing my existence as a pro-life atheist. Who knew that I had to believe in god to understand that killing baby girls in utero is wrong?
“railing against pro-lifers for not solving the age-old, worldwide problem of misogyny before trying to pass pro-life laws”
Passing pro-life laws is railing against the problem of misogyny.
She has started to think about the topic, she just hasn’t come full-circle yet.
When they urged us to accept abortion, they promised us that poverty would end, misogyny would end, women would be elevated in dignity, and women would not be hurt or killed by dangerous “illegal” abortions.
Still waiting….
Most of us entered the pro-life movement because we want to recognize the children’s right to life, and save them from murder. (The feminist pro-borts are just entering this territory when they acknowledge that little girls ought not to be killed because their gender is unwanted.)
But over the years, a great many of us have come to see that women are exploited, abused, pressured & coerced, injured and rendered sterile, and suffering long-term consequences because of legal abortion. Pro-life is pro-woman, and religion has nothing to do with it.
Spousal abuse and female genital mutilation have underlying causes too. Is Ms. Gordon against banning those too?
“Give me what I want or the baby gets it!” That’s really what she is saying.
Let’s make this very simple:
Pro-abortion likes dead babies.
Misogyny likes dead baby girls.
Legal abortion totally supports misogyny.
It is easy to kill baby girls when it is easy to kill babies.
If we want to protect girls, we need to protect boys and girls. And we need to protect women from the sleazy men who use women for sex, expecting that they skip out on responsibility of fatherhood.
Ending abortion is a necessary step toward ending misogyny.
Misogyny will persist as long as feminists and men refuse to respect women and their natural fertility.