Why do you say this? I know why others have said this (and I know it is not the main point of your post), and I can see thier reasoning. Some women are forced into abortions by family, society, husbands, boyfriends. These women are let down by a service that is there to help them. If a woman is not actually ready and willing then she should be given an abortion.
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Abortion is cowardly. Instead of overthrowing the patriarchal society and reaching for a potential inclusive of maternity, women have pushed aside their very femininity for mans ideology of unrepentant strength.
I'm afraid I cannot agree with this at all. Being able to be a mother does not make someone more feminine. Just as being infertile, having a masectomy or a hystorectomy does not make you any less feminine.
I've been told I may not ever be able to carry a pregnancy to term. Do I feel any less womanly? No, I do not.
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We have become who we hated. We have become heartless monsters trampling anyone who stands in way of our superficial success.
Generalising a little here. Do you think that women who apply for abortion are all doing it simply because they are on the fast track to company chair and a pregnancy would get in the way of that?
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Maybe this is some sort of revenge via transference...If we can't kill the despot, kill the
children.
I'm afraid you have summed up the entire inadequacy of your arguments with your penultimate statement. No one is killing children.
You can argue untill you are blue in the face that an embryo/fetus is a child, but you cannot get passed the science. To be a child first it must be born, alive. To be considered sentient first it must have a functionable brain. Even if the jury is still out on when EXACTLY this occurs, general concensus says some point beyond 20 weeks, when the vast majority of abortions occur only for emergency medical reasons, or if the birth would result in a still-born.
I know that many Pro-Lifers would argue that "its not a human being" argument was used by slave-owners etc... through history. However, perfectly sound scientific research backs up the Pro-Choice movement.
This was just a quick cursory answer. I hope I haven't come off as an arrogant moron (as I do that when I'm in a rush sometimes) I have to go now, hopefully I'll have time at some point to come back and discuss this a little deeper.
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