Posted on 01/29/2020 12:10:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote and catapulted them out of the shadows of dependence into the full sunlight of long-awaited civic freedoms.
The right to vote was only the beginning of a long list of goals achieved by the early women’s right movement. It also gained for us the right to control our property, to defend ourselves and our children from abusive husbands, to earn advanced degrees, and join professions reserved for men.
But one right the early feminists did not fight for was the right to abortion. On the contrary, they understood abortion not as a woman’s right, but a wrong against our sex. It is today’s pro-life women that fully preserve the suffragists’ ideals.
Decades of strident abortion activism have obscured this important piece of history, as today’s feminist activists have gone from demanding that abortion be “safe, legal, and rare” to the outright celebration of “shout your abortion.”
Yesterday’s courageous suffragists would be shocked and saddened by today’s pro-abortion feminists’ complete disregard for the nature of abortion and its effects on women.
The first feminists felt keenly that abortion was not an act of liberation, but of coercion—not a triumph, but a tragic defeat. Abortion did not empower women, but degraded them, treating their fertility as a defect and their sons and daughters as disposable.
They also understood that abortion empowered unscrupulous men by absolving them from all responsibility in the sexual act.
The very basis of the equal rights movement was the inherent dignity of every human person. It makes perfect sense that such a movement should frown on abortion and infanticide, acts that end the life of a defenseless child.
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PING!
“Oh don’t lean on me man, ‘cause you can’t afford the ticket
I’m back on Suffragette City”
-David Bowie
“And Jet, I thought the major was a lady suffragette.” - Paul McCartney
I’ll bet I have much bigger feet than those ladies.
Try some orthotics.
Or cut off a toe.
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