Fox News on the gender-gap in murder:
“Consider this: On December 5, John Andrew Welden will be sentenced after pleading guilty in the murder of his unborn baby. Welden’s girlfriend, Remee Jo Lee, was six weeks pregnant when he gave her an abortion pill and told her it was antibiotics.
Welden was prosecuted for violating the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Believe it or not, federal legislation forbids the murder of an unborn baby—except in the 55 million instances when it doesn’t. And a father can be convicted of murdering his unborn child without the mother’s consent, but if a woman decides to end her pregnancy against the wishes of the father, that’s her right to choose.
Choose murder? Can’t follow all of the logic? Perhaps that’s because it’s illogical.”
Comment:
I was always pro-choice until I took a close look at the people doing the choosing and the ideology they professed. Then I realized that
1. That pro-choice women were not advocating for abortion only in extremis. They were advocating for it at all time, for whatever reason.
2. Pro-choice women had no compunction toward the fetus/baby inside them. They regarded it as a kind of excrescence, disease, or aberration, which is manifestly irrational, since the fetus/baby is the logical end of intercourse.
3. Pro-choice women were using abortion in place of contraception, showing gross negligence of ordinary care that would call for man-slaughter charges against them in any other area.
4. Pro-choice feminists were manifestly narcissistic and entitled in the way they discussed other issues, using sexuality as a weapon to manipulate or ridicule, when it suited them, and then using it as a shield, when their opponents retaliated in kind.
In other words, they argue for preferential treatment both in entitlements and in protections under the law.
Once I began to see this and started to read more about the history of the modern feminist movement, I came to the conclusion that its narrative about abortion was self-serving…… and my support of it was wrong and inconsistent with my views on aggressive war.
Today, I have come to believe that abortion is at the deepest level the civil and moral wrong that has been most damaging to society.
It is true that, as the libertarians argue, war strengthens the state through militarization and centralization. But what is missed in that analysis is the underlying psycho-social factors that enable acceptance of war and militarization.
Those factors are strengthened by the break-down of the family, at the heart of which lies the killing of the unborn.