anti-choice hypocrisy by a "pro-choicer"
I ran across a Q&A feminist column by a pro-choicer, "Ask Amy".
Dismissing Feminists for Life's activism against coerced abortion, Amy insists, "Our goal isn't to force women to have abortions, but to leave it as an option should women want it."
However, then I read a question where a teenager asks Amy, "how do I and my family and her mother convince [my pregnant friend] that abortion is the way to go?".
Wouldn't you think that someone opposed to forcing abortion on women would be offended by this attempt to pressure a pregnant girl to abort? Wouldn't a real pro-choicer think the girl should reach that decision herself?
Instead, Amy says, "given her circumstances, as described by you, I think that if she chose to have this child it would not be in the child's best interest--and, therefore, would be a selfish decision on her part."
It is ironic that many pro-choicers call pro-life feminists like Serrin Foster "anti-choice", even though her primary concern is to give women the resources to continue a wanted pregnancy, rather than banning abortion. And yet we have "pro-choicers" who tell a woman she's "selfish" if she CHOOSES to keep her baby...that is my definition of really being anti-choice.
Dismissing Feminists for Life's activism against coerced abortion, Amy insists, "Our goal isn't to force women to have abortions, but to leave it as an option should women want it."
However, then I read a question where a teenager asks Amy, "how do I and my family and her mother convince [my pregnant friend] that abortion is the way to go?".
Wouldn't you think that someone opposed to forcing abortion on women would be offended by this attempt to pressure a pregnant girl to abort? Wouldn't a real pro-choicer think the girl should reach that decision herself?
Instead, Amy says, "given her circumstances, as described by you, I think that if she chose to have this child it would not be in the child's best interest--and, therefore, would be a selfish decision on her part."
It is ironic that many pro-choicers call pro-life feminists like Serrin Foster "anti-choice", even though her primary concern is to give women the resources to continue a wanted pregnancy, rather than banning abortion. And yet we have "pro-choicers" who tell a woman she's "selfish" if she CHOOSES to keep her baby...that is my definition of really being anti-choice.