Equal rights for women?

Gloria Steinem’s definition of feminism is "A recognition of the equality and full humanity of women and men."

Feminists like her see abortion rights as the cornerstone of freedom; they consider abortion rights basic to social equality. Underlying this assumption is the belief that biological makeup precludes a woman from being a fully-functioning person – to be equal she has to imitate ‘wombless’ males. Reproductive ability is seen as a liability. Such victims regard themselves as victims of their biology.

A spokesperson for Feminists For Life points out that "If medical technology is needed to keep women from being subjected to ‘whims of nature’ then that’s buying the patriarchal premise that nature made men superior and women inferior. Acceptance of this premise is hardly consistent with feminist thinking."

When women accept that if their babies are unwanted by someone else – their bosses, their lovers, their husbands - then they are not wanted by them either, they are accepting what someone is saying to them "Don’t get pregnant, or if you do, don’t stay pregnant – don’t make demands on the system." Women are restructured, society stays the same.

Abortion is part of the female-body-as-recreational object syndrome. The idea is that a man can use a woman, vacuum her out, and she is ready to be used again.

Ready abortion legitimises male irresponsibility and paves the way for even more male detachment and lack of commitment.

Abortion allows men to buy their way out of responsibility.

The Playboy Federation is the biggest single contributor to the abortion rights movement. Leaders of Feminist Abortion Movement were at fundraising parties at the Playboy mansion thrown by the man responsible for trivialisation of female sexuality.

Part of Playboy philosophy sees women as exploitable commodities for male convenience!

Liberated women who object to being considered ‘sex objects’ may not care to examine too closely their conviction that embryos and foetuses are expendable objects which become less so as they grow more visually attractive.

Feminists, wanting to rid themselves of the weaker sex label, fought to be seen as strong, as being able to confront adversity head on and not conforming to society’s dictates: "I am woman, hear me roar!" But should she fall pregnant when conditions are not perfect, suddenly she is weak and 'can’t cope with another child', 'can’t face raising a child without a partner' or 'can’t afford it'.

Implied in this is that women do not have any capacity to handle adversity without resorting to killing.

On the issue of abortion radical feminists have completely identified with the male aggressor - they spout a straight machismo ideology. The worst of traditional male powerplays are being embraced and brandished by those who have suffered from them the most. Every slogan in the pro-abortion arsenal is male-oriented.

Abortion doesn’t cure any illness, it doesn’t win any woman a raise. In a culture that treats pregnancy and child rearing as impediments it surgically adapts the woman to fit in.

For all these losses, women gain nothing but the right to run in place.

If women are an oppressed group, they are the only such group to require surgery in order to be equal.