Stanek weekend Q: Do you agree “abortion-centered feminism is dying”?
Quoting from US News & World Report, April 17:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the opening days of her presidential candidacy and in the veiled statements that preceded it, suggested her platform would focus at least in part on the economic issues that affect women – equal pay, paid family leave, minimum wage – which anti-abortion activists take to be a sign that they’ve already begun to gain the upper hand.
“Abortion-centered feminism is dying, if not dead,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser on Thursday, arguing that the 2014 election cycle proved that Democrats could not win by attacking Republicans for being anti-abortion.
Do you agree “abortion-centered feminism is dying, if not dead”?
Apr.18, 2015 11:04 am |
Weekend question |
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.
I can’t agree. While the momentum is on the pro-life side, pro-lifers have barely scratched the surface of fighting abortion. We haven’t attacked the core service: first trimester elective abortions. When those are gone, I will say that it’s dead.
“Feminism” is dead. It’s goals of equality and opportunity were achieved many years ago, such that those who continue to whine about “women’s issues” are as dated as leisure suits.
Abortion is not a “women’s issue,” in the sense that women desire it enough to fight for it. That is why it is a losing issue for pro-abortion candidates.
Abortion is not dead. It is still killing. Irresponsible men, cheap healthcare insurance providers, and the abortion industry look to benefit and profit from the fears and immaturity of young mothers.
Abortion centered feminism is dead, because it doesn’t speak to the needs of women, doesn’t speak to what’s relevant in their lives. Even someone who is pro-choice for other women, if she’s being pressured into an abortion she doesn’t want, abortion centered feminism has nothing to say to her about the situation she’s facing. And that’s not even counting the women who are actively pro-life, which is the majority of women, by the way.
I’d love to think that it is, but it honestly still has a fair amount of activists and money behind it. We must never take the risk of underestimating it.
It seems a bit however this would move much faster if they would not keep running away from reporters who ask the tough questions or just running around the tough questions. Instead they let the mainstream media do their fighting while they run and hide from tough questions.
If it were a fair fight, the pro abortion side would lose on all the arguments. You cannot be a humble, truthful person and say your for abortion.
Pete
Pete: If it were a fair fight, the pro abortion side would lose on all the arguments.
No. And, to a large extent, it is a fair fight, and thus we have things as they are.
You cannot be a humble, truthful person….
…and pretend that your assumptions, unprovable as they are, represent any necessary truth to another person. But you do, and that’s where you are false.
It’s goals of equality and opportunity were achieved many years ago – if you believe that Del, then you must be living in a cave and I have to wonder how you have the wherewithal to post here.
That is why it is a losing issue for pro-abortion candidates. – riiight. And where is the gop candidate who has stood up and said they will stop abortion?
There’s no such thing as ‘abortion centered feminism’. It’s ‘choice centered feminism’ predicated on gaining and retaining womens reproductive rights and freedoms.
I hope beyond hope that it is. That’s the only reason I’m so iffy about feminism, and about Hillary Clinton for that matter.