The Pro-Life False Premise

| Fri 25 May 2012 | 3 Comments | 753 Views

Author Homer Carroll

Writer, game developer, unschooling mentor & founder/board member of Shine Your Light Event : A non-profit aimed at helping individuals in medical crisis | @homercarroll

“Republicans, get out of my vagina.” This a great slogan for the recent zeitgeist against the medically invasive bills targeting women’s rights that have been flooding in, the past few years.  The mere idea of an abortion debate is a dangerous and pervasive platform.  Discussing the beginning of life in tandem with abortion is equivalent to planning women’s oppression.  I don’t say this lightly.

The moment that one utters the words, “I think abortion should be illegal.” that very same person is consciously pushing for a change in the personal control a woman has over her own medical choices. That a single person would have a say about the process of abortion, means that individual would have a say in, and consequently have control over, the birthing process of all women. This is ludicrous.  This idea, so powerful and so subtle in it’s presentation, becomes pervasive in thought and eventually apart of our politics.  It should never have gotten this far.

To put it simply:  The false premise on the side of the pro-lifer is, “My views on how women should go about their pregnancy matter.”

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  • http://www.reason-being.com ReasonBeing

    You say that it should never have gotten this far…I agree. What is most striking to me is that this battle should have ended in the 70′s. Somehow it is growing as strong now as it appeared to be back then. It seems that we have not really progressed at all.

  • http://godsdeconstructed.wordpress.com Roger Hart

    If pro-lifers are so sure of their attitudes and beliefs why don’t they say: we shall care for any baby born to a woman who does not want it. But of course, they wouldn’t say that. They want to impose their beliefs without taking responsibility for the consequences. If they did decide to take responsibility I’d have arguments against that but those arguments can remain unstated in this context. Good post.

  • http://www.holisticmomma.com Maria

    What is most disconcerting about the anti-abortion stance is the same people who push to control a woman’s reproductive rights are the same ones systematically taking resources away from women and their children. Meanwhile maternal and infant mortality rise, a very important detail that is nearly always ommitted from the discussion.

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