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Posted on 02/16/2005 3:05:41 PM PST by swilhelm73
It's time for all of us in the pro-life movement to learn to appreciate the power of political satire. Comedian Chris Rock, slated to host the Oscars this month, is being accused of promoting abortion.
"Abortion, it's beautiful, it's beautiful abortion is legal. I love going to an abortion rally to pick up women, cause you know they are f*!@*%g," Rock said during his club routine.
Whether Rock is pro-life or pro-choice, whether he intended to use satire or really believes what he said, is beside the point. What's "beautiful" is that Chris Rock has exposed a profound side effect of legalized abortion — the sexual mistreatment of women.
It's been over 30 years since the United States Supreme Court began our nation's social experiment in legalized abortion. Millions of post-abortive women and their tragic stories prove that Alice Paul was right when she said "abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
Who was Alice Paul, you ask? She was the original drafter of the Equal Rights Amendment before it was hijacked by radical feminists. Alice Paul was one of our lead suffragette foremothers who fought along side Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to establish women's right to vote.
As Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon has noted, "to earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women."
So here we are, five years into the new millennium, and a comedian has the nerve to say out loud what men across America know full well: that legalized abortion is great for their sex lives; that abortion on demand makes women into sex objects with the full consent of the highest court in the land; and that if their sexual use of a woman results in the unfortunate side effect of a pregnancy, then $300 and their "kindhearted" support of the woman's "right to choose" will take care of the problem.
The real problem is that women have gotten the raw end of this deal. Roe has ruined romance. Every woman's deepest desire to love and be loved has been distorted into a license to use and be used. Women have paid with their bodies and their souls. Abandoned emotionally and financially by the men they loved, and moved by profound grief at the loss of their children, they stand in front of crowds with signs that say "I regret my abortion."
Comedic satire may seem at first blush to be a harsh way to draw attention to the fact that legalized abortion allows men to sexually prey on women. But in our culture of entertainment it makes the point well.
We need not throw rocks at Chris Rock for having the audacity to expose how abortion has impacted men's view of women. He's crass, he's crude, he's vulgar — but he has hit the mark.
This is so on the mark.
I disagree with Chris, most of the "womyn" you see at pro-abortion rallies don't exactly have to worry about unwanted pregnancies, if you know what I mean.
When I first heard him do this on his HBO special, that was my impression---a satirical comment on the outrageous immoratlity of the abortion religionists. Abortion as post-coital contraception. I don't see how anyone could take it as endorsement of the radical abortionist position--it is outrageous which is why it is 'funny'.
When I read this article to my wife, she became incensed as to how abortion is seen as "mistreatment" of women when it is the exercise of their choice that leads to the murder of innocent babies.
In other words, women are not the "victims" this article makes them out to be but rather more than willing accomplices to murder.
The devil hates to be mocked.
This applies most especially to his vast minions on the Left!
Exactly. A long time ago, a guy I knew laid out his strategy for 'scoring'. He 'embraced' every crackpot feminist idea immediately as it came out. It worked for him. Of course, when he decided to settle down - he found a feminist that 'waits' on him hand and foot.
I also worked with a woman working in 'Human Resources'. She was constantly bitching about male chauvinist pigs. She wasn't bad looking at all. You could always tell when she wanted something from her boss because her blouse would have many fewer buttons fastened. It was very effective.
She used to complain about her husband being a loser because he would send her flowers at work and surprise her with gifts. I found out later she was having an affair with her boss from a previous job. She also sused to complain about HIM as being a pig for cheating on his wife!
Womyn!
Millions of post-abortive women and their tragic stories prove that Alice Paul was right when she said "abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
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So true.
Your wife needs to understand that for most women, but especially young women and teenage girls, there is no 'Choice' involved. They are bullied by the father of the baby, or, unfortunately, in too many cases, their parents, to 'get rid of the problem'. They are extremely vulnerable, and see no other way out of the situation into which they've gotten themselves.
Chris Rock's "How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked" is a classic.
"If the police have to chase you, they're bringin an ass kickin with 'em"
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LOL! Yeah, they'll catch you, then proceed to beat the snot out of you for making them work so hard to get you!
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Oh, spare me. More Victim Feminism; more "it's all men's fault." Feh. When, oh when, will these authors start treating women as adults who are responsible for their own decisions?