MYTH:
"Legalized abortion is necessary for the protection of women’s rights."
TRUTH:
Abortion demeans and exploits women.
-Pregnancy is a natural, healthy state for women; it
is the most significant difference between women and men. Treating pregnancy like a disease implies that there’s something wrong with the nature of women's bodies.
The group Feminists for Life says in their Debate Handbook:
When women feel that a
pregnant body is a body out of control, deviant, diseased, they are
internalizing attitudes of low self-esteem toward the female body. These attitudes contradict the rightful
feminist affirmation of pregnancy as a natural bodily function which deserves
societal respect and accommodation.
-It is also natural for women to want to protect and
nurture their children; to destroy their own children when they are most in need
of protection violates an essential part of women's nature.
Mother and Child, by Frederic Leighton |
-Abortion denies the most basic right, the right to
life, to hundreds of thousands of unborn women every year.
-Most women who abort do so because they believe
they have no choice: many are coerced, and often abused and threatened with
violence if they don’t abort (see http://www.theunchoice.com/coerced.htm
). Shouldn't we protect their right not to be forced to kill their own children?
-Legalized abortion empowers irresponsible men, because it enables them to exploit women sexually without having to accept the responsibilities of fatherhood.
-Pro-abortion activists fight strenuously at every turn against laws requiring women be given information about abortion and its alternatives. What about women's right to make informed choices?
-Pro-abortion activists fight strenuously at every turn against laws requiring women be given information about abortion and its alternatives. What about women's right to make informed choices?
-The original feminists (Susan B.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, for instance) opposed abortion on the grounds that
abortion was a crime against women as well as their children. Alice Paul said “Abortion is the ultimate
exploitation of women.”
DON’T
BUY THE LIE!
Essential Pro-Life Resources:
Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments (link)
National Right To Life Committee (link)
The Nurturing Network (link)
Links to entire Abortion Myths Series:
Care-Net (link)
Links to entire Abortion Myths Series:
Abortion Myth # 1 [link]
Abortion Myth # 2 [link]
Abortion Myth # 3 [link]
Abortion Myth # 4 [link]
Abortion Myth # 5 [link]
Abortion Myth # 6 [link]
Abortion Myth # 7 [link]
Abortion Myth # 8 [link]
Abortion Myth # 9 [link]
Abortion Myth # 10 [link]
Abortion Myth # 11 [link]
Abortion Myth # 12[link]
Abortion Myth # 13 [link]
Abortion Myth # 14 [link]
Abortion Myth # 15 [link]
Abortion Myth # 16 [link]
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