I finally realized that the idea of abortion and birth control were really just ways of telling women that they are too stupid, weak or incompetent to take responsibility for their actions. And that attitude didn’t set well with me. So after a couple of years of logically reasoning my way through the morality of it all, here I am, quite pro-life and much happier for it.
First of all, congrats on your pregnancy, and I wish you all the best!
Secondly, I wanted to tell you that I agree completely with what you just said there. I’m a male, so I can’t speak from the female perspective, but I have several very good female friends, and they are of the same opinion as you on this one. PP and the abortion rights activists seem to (in the case of younger women) try to tap into that rebellious streak among teenagers, saying that they can do what they want with “their body” and all that claptrap, appealing to their drive for independence and all that. They’ve encountered girls among their peers who have swallowed that line whole, and it’s deeply troubling to them.
The sad thing is, I never hear much about how these so-called “advocates for women’s rights” speak out against pornography and the depraved fantasy that it depicts concerning women. I suppose they think that that’s “their choice too”? Just a random thought.
From my perspective (strengthened in no small way by an article I read recently from the National Catholic Register), women have cast off the injustices of the past few centuries (denial of suffrage, etc.) only to be hit by an even worse wave of monstrosities: pornography and abortion. Both of which are doing massive amounts of damage to women and their God-given dignity. And the worst part is, they think they’re all right (in regards to abortion, that is)!!!
The crux of it is, that is a human life in your womb. The question has nothing to do with “what you can do with your own body.” I wish more people could see this.
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