“The Feminist Response Should Be to Empower Women With Choices They Can Live With”
9/23/15
From Béatrice Fedor at the 400 Words for Women blog:
Once a child is conceived unexpectedly, the feminist response should be to empower women with choices they can live with; choices that don’t put them in a situation of coercion in the hands of controlling sex partners and gruesome procedures with heavy psychological implications; choices that don’t involve a direct attack on the weak and small.
Abortion doesn’t make us equal to men. It produces childless mothers with a wound we can’t put our finger on that consumes us inside while we are showing our best pro-choice rage on the outside.
Women need love and support and a ‘quick-fix abortion’ can give them neither.
Read the whole thing here.
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