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Many of you are probably already aware of the work done by Feminists For Life of America. Veritas.org hosts a lecture Serrin Foster gave before a student audience at UC Santa Barbara entitled The Feminist Case Against Abortion.
Given her remarks near the end of her lecture (specifically concerning FFLA's efforts in Georgetown University), I've come to think more favorably on the possibility that some effort to resolve the matter on some common ground may be viable. Mattie Brinkerhoff is credited for a piece she wrote in 1869, which resonates the approach:
"When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society-so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged."
In other words, the larger social malady may lie in the sort of defiant idea conveyed in the oft-quoted slogan: "It's my body, it's my choice." Men in turn have been prone to respond, "Yes! And it's your problem!" As a result, the role of fatherhood is diminished, and children are disconnected from billions in uncollected child support. The business world is likewise skewed in ways that are "anti-woman" by levying the cultural expectation that if women want a chance to be truly "equal" with men, they must likewise not burden their employers with pregnancies. If pro-lifers advocate making life easier for expectant mothers at home, at schools, and in the workplace, the cultural milieu may in time begin to reflect a newfound respect for the role of the mother, and in turn, the status of the unborn.
Given her remarks near the end of her lecture (specifically concerning FFLA's efforts in Georgetown University), I've come to think more favorably on the possibility that some effort to resolve the matter on some common ground may be viable. Mattie Brinkerhoff is credited for a piece she wrote in 1869, which resonates the approach:
"When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society-so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged."
In other words, the larger social malady may lie in the sort of defiant idea conveyed in the oft-quoted slogan: "It's my body, it's my choice." Men in turn have been prone to respond, "Yes! And it's your problem!" As a result, the role of fatherhood is diminished, and children are disconnected from billions in uncollected child support. The business world is likewise skewed in ways that are "anti-woman" by levying the cultural expectation that if women want a chance to be truly "equal" with men, they must likewise not burden their employers with pregnancies. If pro-lifers advocate making life easier for expectant mothers at home, at schools, and in the workplace, the cultural milieu may in time begin to reflect a newfound respect for the role of the mother, and in turn, the status of the unborn.