Abortion: The Feminist Contradiction
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”- Mother Theresa
This is a plug for a recent work by a member of our family, Elizabeth, who has recently completed a research project on abortion. The paper highlights the inconsistency of the pro-abortion debate, in that while the pro-choice argument seeks self-determination for women, it denies this right to the unborn.
Here’s an abstract, based on the text of the paper:
“In the 21st Century legalised abortion is seen by many as a positive outcome of the feminist movement. … Yet looking at feminist ideology it can be argued that abortion isn’t a positive fruit of the movement at all, and that by fighting to legalise abortion the feminist movement has committed its greatest crime and contradiction. … When a woman terminates a pregnancy, she is putting her child under treatment which is strikingly similar to the way she was once treated, taking from it what is duly its own - respect, freedom of choice and life.”
“Women united because they believed that their interests, needs and opinions were valuable. … It seems ironic that this contradictory war goes by mostly ignored, and when noticed, justified. We have another victim among us who unlike the last is completely at its oppressor’s mercy, without a voice of its own. And those waging the war against it are the very ones who were the victims in the last struggle.”
Read on … Abortion: The Feminist Contradiction