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It isn\u2019t every day that a self-proclaimed pro-choicer makes a valid argument against abortion. Yet that\u2019s just what Jay Sun did in his essay posted on ThoughtCatalog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The essay, “The Disconnect Between Feminists and Abortion,” was inspired by Jimmy Carter\u2019s appearance on Bill Maher\u2019s show in order to promote former president Carter’s new book. In the interview, Carter mentioned a shocking statistic \u2013 that more girls have been killed because of the fact that they are girls in the past hundred years than the combined deaths of all the wars<\/em> of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

These killings are due to sex-selective abortion and infanticide.<\/p>\n

While sex-selective infanticide occurs mainly in countries like China, which has a one-child policy, sex-selective abortion occurs throughout the world, even in the United States. It\u2019s something the abortion industry doesn\u2019t want to admit, and therein lies the problem that Sun lays out. He writes:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t presume to speak for feminism, but I would imagine that anybody who considers themselves a feminist would speak out harshly against sex selective infanticide and abortion. And yet, I can\u2019t help but think that abortion really isn\u2019t that much different from infanticide. They\u2019re both conscious, premeditated decisions to terminate human life in its earliest stages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sun mentions the case of a teen girl<\/a> in Florida who, after hiding her pregnancy, gave birth and choked her baby to death. \u00a0He points out that just a day earlier, this mother could have gotten an abortion and we never would have heard a word about it.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that he\u2019s pro-choice, Sun says he\u2019s finding it much harder to hold that opinion because, while we can revile sex-selective abortion and infanticide, we are supposed to support a woman\u2019s decision to abort for the reason of timing or advancing her career or education.<\/p>\n

Is convenience a valid reason for abortion? Is anything a valid reason for ending an innocent life? And if the abortion industry doesn\u2019t condemn sex-selective abortions against girls, are they truly feminists at all?<\/p>\n

Sun states that if feminism is \u201csupposed to address the ideal that society should value females just as much as males, we\u2019ve still got a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s right about that. Until females and their ability to nurture a human life inside their womb and give birth are truly respected and fertility is seen once again as a gift instead of a side effect, women will never truly be viewed as valuable.<\/p>\n

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