2010 Elections and Pro-Life Women: A Correction for Modern Feminism

While the writer is certainly correct that it is excellent that women's views are being equally represented in Congress and in state governorships, there is a tone in the article I don't like. Why does "authentic female leadership" necessarily have to be pro-life? The beginning of the article presents an egalitarian viewpoint, which correctly states that women are fairly evenly divided on the issue of abortion. Thus, shouldn't representation be evenly divided as well? The second half implies that pro-choice women do not adequately represent the views of their fellow women, and that to be a true feminist you must be pro-life. According to the author, pro-choice women betray the ideals of Susan B. Anthony. Does anyone else see a problem with this? If as many women are pro-choice as are pro-life, how can we say that one viewpoint is more legitimate for women than another? Why does being pro-choice make you less a woman?

I consider myself to be a decent, moral person. I have never had a child, though I dearly wanted one, and the cost to adopt was far too high, and ran too much risk of inheriting the mother's physical and emotional problems. 'Pro-Life' feminism is an oxymoron. How can you seriously hope to promote the welfare of women by condemning them to the whims of any male with a knife and a grudge to bear their children without complaint, sacrificing at least a year, if not more of their own lives, in order to produce something that will more than likely be a burden on the system? Foster-home abuses are notorious, and with the increasing strictures on who is 'qualified' to rear these unwanted children. In an idealized world, it would indeed be very good if every child born was a wanted one, but particularly in today's society, far more aberrancies are happening because the child was brought unwillingly into the world, and the world never let them forget it. Let's get our priorities straight, shall we? Let's get some women in who have a genuine sympathy for other women's problems, and don't just project their complacency on someone who may not be ready, willing, or able to bear and care for a baby because they made the mistake of going out with the wrong guy, or just walking home alone.

Those who call themselves "pro-life" seem never to note that making abortion illegal is stepping onto a slippery slope. If the government can control the choices women make then the government can also control the choices men make. Equal treatment under the law would demand that the government force men to stop conceiving babies that no one wants. The best way to do that would be to nip their baby making abilities in the bud. So, how about a law that requires the government to force a man who has fathered an unwanted baby to undergo a vasectomy? That means, of course, that every male must have his DNA recorded in government data banks so that when a woman is required to give birth to an infant she does not want the government can find the man who fathered that child and force him to have his vasectomy. After all, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. What goes around, comes around. Seems fair to me.

Those who label themselves "pro-life" have missed a very important point in the position they take. Unless they are atheists, they presumably believe that God created the heavens and earth and all that in them is. It is God, then, who placed in the body of the female the womb that shelters the infant for the first nine months of its existence. It is, apparently, then God's will that the female has the responsibility of making the choices regarding the infant's existence during those nine months. Those who want government to pass laws regarding abortion wish to give to government something that is God's. They would better spend their time and energy elsewhere because there is no law that can stop women from aborting a baby when they have decided to do so. From the beginning of time women have been aborting infants they did not want, were unable to support, or that were forcibly conceived. Unless you wish to confine pregnant woment and force feed them, not government nor any "pro-life" person can stop a woman from aborting an infant. You can only make it impossible for them to do so in a proper medical facility. Laws forbidding government provided health insurance from paying for abortions have no effect on anyone except the less than wealthy. Wealthy women will continue to spend the money to go where abortions are available in medical facilities. Poor women will resort to coat hangers inserted into their vaginas.

I am just curious to know if these "pro lifers" who want to put their laws on our bodies are willing to financially support an unwanted pregnancy and the child and stand by to make sure they are cared for until they are at least 18!

Keep your damn hands out of my uterus....so it's ok to 'make a woman' have a baby if she's been raped or become pregnant from her dad....what the heck is wrong with you so called pro-life dummies....what kind of life is that woman going to have or don't you care about that.

if the usa is going to be an effective nation in this world of nations we now live in -- it should be a nation of pro-choice and every child born in the usa should be a wanted /planned child - think the above piece is very slanted /biased towards for the pro-life -- i hope that aol.com will give the other side - the prochoice side - equal time to respond for such a negative/ poorly compoised piece of work --bb

pro lifers take away peoples rights but do they support these children they save? no!! they let these children grow up in poverty pain and on the welfare system.God gives people a choice to be good or bad but pro lifers think they are better then God and take peoples choices away.until prolifers take these children in raise them at their own exspence then they have NO RIGHT to tell others what to do with their life

IT'S FUNNY!.....Out of all the people I know that are pro-life.....NOT ONE! Has ever been a foster parent or adoped an unwanted child and TRUST ME! They all could afford to do it! Out of all the people I know who are pro-choice I have 7 friends, 3 couples and a single that are or have been foster parents and have adopted or are in the process. Hmmmmmmm INTERESTING!

You wish, you keep on telling yourself that and try to believe it. Women have a sense that they control thier destiny and thier decision to have children, your words , if you really even belive what you wrote, are meaningless.