The misogyny of abortion
A woman named Janice recently responded to a Pulse blogpost as follows:
“Abortion is a woman’s right. Her hopes, her dreams, her fears, her joys, her sorrows, her past traumas, her loves, most of the time her past experience of motherhood, what makes her happy, what makes her unhappy, everything that makes her a person, are more valuable than whatever interest a 1/4 inch to 2 inch non-sentient life form, which cannot think, feel, or have any sense of its own exsitence, can possibly have.
Forced Birthers want to grant to embryos and fetuses “a right” that no other group has—the right to use another’s organs and bodily fluids in order to exist, and they can do that only by stripping pregnant women of a right that everyone else does have—the right to bodily autonomy.
This is misogyny, pure and simple.”
Interestingly, she was responding to a Pulse blogpost touting the 52 greatest love songs ever. Our premise is that love is the antidote to abortion, as we said in our post describing a beautiful love song:
“Beautiful. What else is beautiful? Life itself. Beautiful love songs are potent medicine for the culture of death that overtook our country over the past half century through abortion.Spread the love. Share these songs. And share your fruitfulness with your gift to Pulse Life Advocates today.”
These words seemed to have triggered Janice. Here’s how we responded:
“Misogyny is defined as the hatred of women. We can’t think of anything more hateful to a woman than supporting the killing of her own child, a child she brought into this world by her choice to have sexual relations.
Nothing can be more hateful than taking away the life of an unborn human being, a child with an entire life ahead of her, complete with fears and sorrows, but also with hope and promise and the chance of love. Abortion is anti-love. It is a heartless act towards women and their babies. It is misogyny, pure and simple. Thanks for sharing your views, Janice.”
You’ll note how abortion advocates now love to characterize pro-lifers as “forced-birthers.”
Catholic apologist and pro-life speaker, Trent Horn, responds as well as anyone to this false characterization. He describes the term ‘forced birthers’ as an “ugly euphemism described to obscure what abortion does.” He says pro-lifers are “anti-dismemberment and the direct killing of an innocent human being.”
You can watch more of his response above.
Ultimately, those promoting abortion are horribly anti-woman.
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