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It’s been a few months since I posted an article about
the pro-abortion philosophy of feminist Sophie Lewis and have since decided to
follow up on new developments in this movement. The Daily Caller news service
interviewed several pro-choice protestors in front of the Supreme Court
building, and it was stunning how they avoided the question of why more black
babies are aborted than white ones.
Numerous people interviewed responded by primarily avoiding the question;
one woman went back to chanting “my body, my choice” while others simply answered
that the decision to abort is a woman’s choice and access to abortion is a
woman’s right. Nobody seemed to really care about the plight of a black unborn
baby. In full disclosure, one woman actually took the pro-life position.
Apparently not all black lives matter.
In a video from an archive of George Floyd protests, people
loudly agreed that all black lives matter but were strangely silent when asked
about black babies killed in abortions.
Abortionist philosophy leads to a conclusion that the
concerns of the mother are not those of the father and actually suggests that
men should not care about their children. If you don’t want to care about your
baby in the womb, why care about it outside the womb? This philosophy destroys
families, and you should judge a philosophy by its fruit (in this case,
rotten). Critic-of-Darwinism Phillip Johnson remarks that:
In view of the importance
of families to the social order, it is irrational for lawmakers to encourage
people to think of themselves primarily as rights-bearing and pleasure-seeking
individuals who form and sever sexual relationships with other people according
to their own convenience. Yet contemporary American law does exactly that. One
way it does it is by permitting easy divorce at the option of either party, so
that men and women alike know that they can leave a marriage whenever they get
tired of the arrangement or find a better opportunity. Another thing
the law does is to foster the impression that the unborn child in the womb is
the expectant mother's sole property, to dispose of as she wishes. This invites
fathers who are inclined to hedonism to draw the logical conclusion that what
is the mother's sole property is also her sole responsibility. (emphasis
mine)[i]
That being said, here are some other resources for
you:
Some women regret their abortions, but their stories
are seldom told. National Review had an article on that at https://www.nationalreview.com/news/women-defy-shoutyourabortion-with-their-stories-of-regret/
Some women, maybe many, call themselves feminist but also
are pro-life. One article from a pro-life woman appears at Huffington Post’s
web site (of all places). Here’s
a link to the article because it’s a very long link. For a book reflecting,
in more detail, the female pro-life stance, see Gail-Grenier Sweet’s Pro-LifeFeminism: Different Voices. I own a copy
of it if anyone has any questions about it.
I suspect that secular liberals, atheists, and evolutionists
will most likely avoid the question posed above – by faulty philosophy if necessary.
Christians, however, will adamantly say that all lives do matter, unborn black
ones as well. Vicky Joy Anderson, writing in the Wisconsin Christian News,
says that “black lives DO matter!” [emphasis in original] She goes on to say “Please
do not hear me saying we can only care about what happened to George Floyd or
abortion. Both are equally as important. And that is exactly my point. BOTH are
important, so why is only one of these issues starting riots? Where is the
outrage for the millions of black lives snuffed out in federally-funded
abortion clinics every year?” [emphasis again in the original][i]
[i] Phillip
Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science,
Law & Education (Downer's Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1995), 151
