This morning when I was eating breakfast, I was thinking about the fact that the fanatical level of insistence among certain members of the Bush cult that no one may dare to criticize Bush's Iraq debacle actually indicates that those who advocate this position understand how truly weak it is. No one who is sure that their position is correct is so horribly afraid of questions or criticism.
Now, along comes the Mad Melancholic Feminista to make the same point about those who run around frantically insisting that "abortion is murder." She points out that: if most people really believed that abortion was murder (which is the specific moral wrong that those who object to it from a religious standpoint assert), then abortion would quite simply be a non-issue. I mean, c'mon. No one tolerates or even likes a rapist or child pornographer. But, you can not only like, but love a woman who had an abortion. You might disagree with what she did. You might find it morally repugnant. But, except for a select few, you can't imagine people absolutely wanting to rip apart a woman who terminated a pregnancy.
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Is abortion really killing? Would you need to advertise so strenuously this extreme view if most people thought it was killing? I mean, can you imagine bumper stickers on cars that said "Rapists Suck." Or "Rapists Destroy Women's Souls Every Day." No. Of course not.
I wish that I'd been half as smart as she is when I was her age. I wish that I wrote half as well as she writes. I think her insight is spot on.
1 comment:
Hecate,
You are making me blush!! Thanks for the compliments. I am glad that I have been able to articulate some of these arguments well. But, I give credit to the fine people of Grove. All I have done is listen.
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