Dear Pro-Choice NYer, You Got What You Asked For
Dear Pro-Choice NYer,
You wanted to do whatever you wanted to do with your body, and then claim you had a right to kill your own children when you conceived them because it was just so unfair for anyone to expect you to let that child use you against your will. You said you needed your choices, and you needed them without judgement or criticism. You tossed God’s law aside and said that your rights come from man’s law, and that worked for you as long as you thought you were getting your way. Motherhood be damned.
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When the New York City abortion rate was reported (God only knows what it really is) to be 41%, meaning that nearly 2 in 5 pregnancies end in abortion, you didn’t even wince. You were proud those women were exercising their so-called right to choose even when the city health officials made condescending excuses that the high rate was due to the “ignorance” and “ambivalence” of women who hadn’t been indoctrinated in the methods of birth control, or who were too stupid and poor to chose stable relationships.
Even decades ago when your feminist and pro-choice philosophies collided over sex-selective abortion right in your own city, you quieted the voice in your head that was screaming, “No. STOP! You should not,” because you feared that making moral judgments would take away the high and mighty right for you to profit from the ambivalent under the guise of caring about women. In a mind-seering display of mental gymnastics you sought to rephrase the question by separating the chooser from the choice, so that you could justify killing girls in the womb even as you condemned misogyny.
Let me tell you something: Truth does not condescend the human person, male or female of any age, nor does it contradict itself. That should have been warning enough, but you were too blinded by the tenets of the reproductive rights movement and the power you thought it gave you.
Read the rest at The American Catholic or at LifeNews.
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And….60% of black babies in NYC. A racist could hardly devise a more insidious plan.
Wow.
Great post.
“Let me tell you something: Truth does not condescend the human person, male or female of any age, nor does it contradict itself. That should have been warning enough, but you were too blinded by the tenets of the reproductive rights movement and the power you thought it gave you.”
That is………
It.
Exactly.
Wow, Stacey, that was a devastating piece of prose, and I mean it as a huge compliment. Brava!
If a PCer’s justification is bodily autonomy, no other question matters except fetal viability. It doesn’t matter why a woman chooses to abort, or how abhorant they might find her reasoning personally. It’s about her right to make the choice for herself. If a woman wants to give birth 20 times in 20 years, her choice. If a woman wants to abort 20 times in 20 years, her choice. If a woman wants to give birth 3 times, abort once and give 3 up for adoption, her choice. If a woman want to have no children at all, her choice. If a woman wants only a boy and she aborts, her choice.
There is no contradiction in leaving the choice for her to make to the NYPCer.
Would a NYPCer personally agree with every reproductive choice a woman may make? No. Would a NYPCer like the woman to have the opportunity to make that choice legally, and have equal access to each choice available? Yes.
So, NYPCers will be happy they got what they asked for.
Your task would be to do what you have been doing. That is to open hearts and minds to your mode of thinking, and allow women to freely choose to the path you’d like her to follow.
ChrisCintheD–
You didn’t read the whole article. Click on the link….it’s about Bloomberg (next to)forcing (by “hiding the formula”) all women who give birth to breast feed.
So the point of the article is the irony between “my body, my choice” mantra of NYers, and yet, this same pro-choice legislator they all go ga-ga over, is “controlling” women’s bodies by “forcing” them to breast feed. Government keeps getting bigger….New York is just a scary experiment.
Rachel,
Ah, you’re right, I didn’t read the rest of the article.
Yeah, I am very pro-BF…but again, it is not something that should be legislated, even indirectly.
I think this country, Dems and Repubs alike, are only for small government when it suits them.