Lack of logic
I've been reading about the Ms. G case, which concerns the Manitoba woman who was addicted to solvents and forced into treatment to protect her unborn baby. It's painful at times.
Consider this line that was in a feminist analysis of the case:
"Probably the most enduring stereotype about feminists is that they value their own freedom more than caring for children and families and that one necessarily negates the other. "
I find it ludicrous to call it a stereotype. That's what abortion is, which has been advanced, by feminists, as one of the most important legal decisions for women in history. Abortion is valuing the freedom of women over caring for children in the most profound, ultimate and irreversible way. Feminists did not argue for legal options that would hold the rights of both in balance. They argued for a legal option that would give all rights to women and none to the unborn.
Of course feminists who are pro-choice (and some would probably say that there can be no such thing as a pro-life feminist) value their own freedom higher. This is not a stereotype, it is a historical fact.
So don't go whining about how feminists are portrayed, baby. You wrote the book.
Consider this line that was in a feminist analysis of the case:
"Probably the most enduring stereotype about feminists is that they value their own freedom more than caring for children and families and that one necessarily negates the other. "
I find it ludicrous to call it a stereotype. That's what abortion is, which has been advanced, by feminists, as one of the most important legal decisions for women in history. Abortion is valuing the freedom of women over caring for children in the most profound, ultimate and irreversible way. Feminists did not argue for legal options that would hold the rights of both in balance. They argued for a legal option that would give all rights to women and none to the unborn.
Of course feminists who are pro-choice (and some would probably say that there can be no such thing as a pro-life feminist) value their own freedom higher. This is not a stereotype, it is a historical fact.
So don't go whining about how feminists are portrayed, baby. You wrote the book.
posted by Jude | 8:39 AM
2 Comments:
Part of me regretted posting that - a very raw moment for me. I believe strongly in finding links between people, areas of agreement rather than disagreement. Heck, 95% of what falls under the title feminism I probably agree with. And I think there are a lot of areas of commonality even between the 2 sides of the abortion controversy.
But whenever I think about abortion, I feel anger, and it is a righteous anger, not so much towards people as towards the injustice. I find it interesting that I received no comments on this post. Over the years I have been puzzled by the lack of anger I see within Christians around me, sometimes wondering if there is even a sense of apathy. But I think God places different emphases on different people. Example: some people are passionate about street people. I am not. I know that they, too, have been victims of injustice, but this reality doesn't hit me the same way that the precarious state of the unborn does. I think that if I felt the full weigh of every injustice, I couldn't function. So God's given me a heart for the unborn. And so I'll serve the CPC and do what I can to bring compassion to the forefront. And I'll normally try to be diplomatic. But this is my blog, and I'll rant if I want to.
Finding the commonalities is great, but not calling a spade a spade doesn't make it any less a spade. It does enable it to not own up to it's spade-ness and sweep it under the rug, though.
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