{"id":17334,"date":"2012-06-01T05:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=17334"},"modified":"2013-04-03T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T02:01:17","slug":"why-pro-choice-pro-gendercide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/why-pro-choice-pro-gendercide\/","title":{"rendered":"Why pro-choice = pro-gendercide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s a familiar refrain: oppose abortion, and you’re anti-woman<\/a>. Oppose government-mandated contraception coverage, and you’re anti-woman<\/a>. Acknowledge the concept of sexual responsibility, and you’re anti-woman<\/a>. But what if you\u2019re trying to prevent abortion from being used to target baby girls for destruction<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out that\u2019s anti-woman, too. LifeNews reports<\/a> that several congressional Democrats have taken the incredible position that respect for women requires tolerating prenatal gendercide:<\/p>\n

During today\u2019s debate on the Congressional bill to ban sex-selection abortions, Michigan Democrat John Conyers said the ban on sex-selection abortions \u201ctramples the rights of women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt limits a woman\u2019s right to choose and jeopardizes her access to safe, legal medical care,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

Conyers, ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, went as far as fighting GOP attempts to name the bill after Susan B. Anthony to honor women.<\/p>\n

Jarrold Nadler, of New York, said the ban on sex-selection abortions is the \u201clatest tactic in the War on Women.\u201d Rep. Hank Johnson said the bill was part of the \u201cRepublican War on Women.\u201d And Barbara Lee of California went as far as claiming that women would reset to back alley abortions if they couldn\u2019t obtain a sex-selection abortion like the ones the bill would ban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo credit: World Can't Wait on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

The White House has announced<\/a> that President Barack Obama also opposes the bill.<\/p>\n

On one level, this should be the final nail in the coffin for the idea that legal abortion was ever a pro-woman position. If terms like gender equality, feminism, and women\u2019s rights don\u2019t at the very least mean that you have the right not to be killed simply for being female<\/em>, then they mean absolutely nothing. There can be no more egregious form of gender discrimination<\/a> than killing a helpless, defenseless child who has committed no crime other than possessing the wrong chromosomes.<\/p>\n

Having to buy your own birth control, thinking hard about parenthood before having sex, not being able to have your daughter killed\u2026these don\u2019t even begin<\/em> to compare. This is the perversity of what modern liberalism has done to feminism: completely exchanging real goods like equal rights and dignity for phony \u201crights\u201d that are superficial at best and destructive at worst – and not just to babies, but to mothers<\/a> as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On another level, however, there is a necessary consistency to the Democrats\u2019 position. If unborn babies aren\u2019t people, if they\u2019re really just subhuman body parts over which women have absolute dominion, then how can any reason for disposing of them be less tolerable than any other? Indeed, how can the ardent pro-abort afford to support gender-discrimination protection for fetuses when the mere admission that fetuses can be identified as male or female punctures the fantasy that they aren\u2019t human?<\/p>\n

Never has the emptiness of the \u201cWar on Women\u201d theme been clearer. Pro-choicers exploit both sexism and fear of sexism for political gain, but their ideological commitment to abortion means they simply can\u2019t be there for women\u2019s actual<\/em> rights when they\u2019re needed most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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