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on Aug 31st, 2012 and filed under I take the middle path in this argument, I don’t agree with it, but I still think it’s a medical procedure women should have a choice to have.
But the idea women are naturally more kind and caring due to their natural instincts is dissolved by the fact many women will have an abortion (destroying the possibility of life) so they can have a career and/or not have a clump of cells affect their lifestyle in general.
Middle path in relation to abortion.
This is not an attack on women, although some feminist may interpret it that way.
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No abortion is just like eating meat. No one likes to see or think about the gruesome details but the end result is what matters.
People who get abortions don’t see it as killing a cute little baby. The thing is tiny, like you said, bunch of cells.
I don’t see why people think it’s any more important to women than the eggs that weren’t fertilized and caused a period all the other months.
Making hard decisions doesn’t mean someone has no heart.
Why should a woman have to choose her career oer the cells? It shouldn’t need to be such a big decision. The woman is choosing what she wants her body to do. She doesn’t need to have a good reason. She has the right, end of story. Unless you have that human coming out of your genitals and living in you for nearly a year, it is none of your business frankly, and you ought to keep all judgements to yourself.
I think you made this an attack against women when you said feminists have created the idea that females are of a higher female moral superiority. Some feminists do strive to be seen as superior, but most have the goal of achieving equal status to men.
Abortion doesn’t make a woman any less compassionate or moral. An abortion is a simple medical procedure that prevents an unwanted pregnancy from becoming an unwanted child. Just because a pregnancy has begun does not mean it has to be continued. To end a pregnancy doesn’t end a human life, it’s not a matter of morals.
I often see abortion as the responsible and compassionate thing to do. Children should be planned and cared for, only being brought into the best of conditions. What would be immoral is forcing a woman to continue a pregnancy against her will or bringing a child into a bad situation.
Feminists cry about how “women are the more spiritually advanced sex” etc, but the feminist movement never tires of stooping to the gutter to get what they want e.g.
- feminists encourage normal women to kill their unborn children, and they call this ‘women’s liberation’.
- feminists have actively covered up the truth about how men are just as likely to the be victims of domestic violence from women as visa versa
- feminists in the UK have campaigned for laws that allow women reduced sentences for violence against men, and also for the closure of women’s prisons (but not men’s).
Does feminism have the moral high ground? Yes, in the same sense that feminists love men.
Where do you get the idea from that feminists created the idea of female moral superiority?
To my mind, it is a romantic Victorian idea a la Charles Dickens. As far as I can tell, most feminists are much more realistic. They know that women often do get left holding the baby and often have to bring up their children on their own.
I don’t know how I feel about abortions – it’s not something I would willingly do but I do know how desperate situations can become. I also know that early abortions are much more preferable before the foetus turns into a recognizable baby – and I’m not terribly sentimental about bringing up an unwanted child in an overcrowded world.
Nor do I think you have to be a feminist to have an abortion. My own father ordered my mother to have an abortion and she was anything but a feminist. She miscarried fortunately so all ended well.
The world isn’t black or white. I once read a post from a woman who worked with women who were due to have abortions – and most felt pressured by their partners into having abortions. She said they had an abortion to save their relationship.
Isn’t that sad.
This is based on a fallacy. Females do not have moral superiority, there are as many female participants in ‘evil’ acts as there are men.
Yes. I don’t think women can clami the moral high ground as long as they go on insisting that it is a ‘woman’s right to choose’ to destroy the baby in the womb.
The early feminists, like Susan B. Anthony, were vehemently opposed to abortion, and would have been absolutely horrified by the turn modern feminism has taken on this issue.
I do not know one woman nor do i think there are very many who have not gone through much heart searching, sorrow and agonizing before decided to have an abortion.
I think many people look at the figures and forget that every one of these abortions is a person, very often a young girl who is barely more than a child herself, a woman who has no means to raise a child and all the other different reasons why they have reached the decision to terminate a pregnancy.
The vast majority are left with sadness, regret, that the decision had to be made and even guilt. The last thing they are thinking about when having to decide whether to have a child or not is whether they consider they have a moral superiority and how their decision may affect an extreme feminist ideology, which is not even shared by the majority of women who believe in equality of the sexes.
Sometmes it’s not that simple, if a woman is raped does she really have to carry that baby to term? What about if it might kill her and she chooses not too, is that selfish too?
People are idiots, if you don’t want to have a baby wear protection. Both men and women should know about this by now. Sometimes though it doesn’t always work out. My sister in law who really wanted a baby had to have an abortion because it was growing inside her without half it’s head, it would have died at the age of 6 and she didn’t think she could handle that. She now 4 years later has a beautiful 6 month old boy named Dexter. Sometimes it has to happen, no matter how ugly it seems; it has to be done sometimes.
I am pro-choice.
But I will say it is hard to claim any kind of superiority when you can’t even figure out how to not get yourself pregnant in the first place. In today’s world it not a hard thing to do!
You say “so they can have a career and/or not have a clump of cells affect their lifestyle in general”
Others say “so they are not facing a lifetime of poverty with more mouths to feed than they can”.
We’re not all matyrs.