When parents can abort a baby because it’s a girl, they are guilty of the worst kind of sexism. Rape, porn, the tyranny of beauty that compels little girls to perform plastic surgery to attain perfection: these are nothing in comparison to the mindset that will not allow for girls to be conceived in the first place. Our daughters – and not just in immigrant communities – are learning that a girl’s life is worthless. Feminists should be up in arms about this. They are not.

Surely the cruelest of all ironies is the idea that the abortion-on-demand somehow strikes a blow for women’s rights. Such thinking is a bleeding wound in our national conscience and logical incoherence on the part of radial pro-abortionists.

For females to support the abortion of females is philosophical cannibalism and physical destruction in the name of progress and personal freedom. If one person’s freedom stops where another’s body starts, then abortion is the most heinous behavior ever foisted on a generation. Abortion is no more about a woman’s reproductive rights than Charles Manson’s infatuation with The Beatles was about music appreciation.

Oddly enough, early feminist leaders realized abortion has absolutely nothing to do with women’s rights or personal freedom. The British writer Mary Wollstonecraft wrote:

Women…sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection…either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

Feminist Erika Bachiochi rejected abortion as a woman’s right issue concluding:

[A]bortion hijacked feminism. Rather than elevate the status of the feminine virtues in the public square and teach the power of serving, as a true feminism ought, mainstream feminism, having allowed itself to be corrupted by the abortion imperative, taught women to place ambitions and desires of the self above those in need, and to value power more than truth and love. Some women, persuaded by this corrupted feminism, have sacrificed their very womanliness—most manifest in the ability to bear a child—by having abortions in order to continue pursuing success in the public square. Such a course of action is inherently anti-woman…Hearts will not change concerning abortion until women…insist through both words and deeds that acts of love are far more impressive, attractive and noble than acts of power.

I encourage you to read this entire article Feminism and Gendercide of Unwanted Girls at Quadrant Online. Citations from the above quote are found there.

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