July 19, 2004

Thoughts on the weekend's most notorious story

Everyone's linked to this, so what can I add?

First off, like Susan b., I used to call myself pro-choice. I had a different route to my turnaround however. All the talk about it being a rights issue, similar to slavery, started to sink in. I started to realize, who am I to deny that an unborn child is not a living being, with as much right to live as I? The conversion wasn't immediate, but I noticed myself nodding in agreement as I heard the argument, and I found myself in sympathy with those who defend the right to life for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Now, to add something to the discussion I haven't seen elsewhere, here are descriptions of several women who claim to be feminists.

First, Amy Richards (link via Michelle Malkin), and of course, the first link listed above, detailing her decision to kill two of her three unborn children.

And for another point of view, here are quotes from several feminists, who opposed abortion, including Susan B. Anthony and Ellen Stanton, who founded the feminist movement in America.

Three lies of popular culture today:

  • All feminists are pro-choice. (Susan B. Anthony said otherwise)
  • Pro-life people are uncompassionate. (yeah right, like all of us who adopt do it because we want children to suffer? And how is killing two of three unborn so that one doesn't have to shop at Costco supposed to be an example of compassion? That's just plain selfishness, pure and simple)
  • Abortion is a basic human right. (how can a violation of the first right, life, be a basic human right?)

    Posted by Joel Fuhrmann at July 19, 2004 10:48 PM
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