Anti-Choice Feminists

By | March 3, 2012

From Best of the Web Today (WSJ):

If there is one word that captures the Orwellian nature of contemporary feminism, it is "choice." It’s not just the word’s wide use as a euphemism for abortion. You can understand why people on that side of the abortion issue prefer to frame their position in abstract terms, as a defense of liberty, rather than concretely discussing the specific freedom they are defending. Some of them are no doubt sincere in saying that they favor "the right to choose" in general and have no brief for abortion in particular.

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But in any case, why does it so bother Miller that the Romneys, Santorums and Pauls (and also the Palins, whom she mentions in another paragraph) made the choice to have large families? If she cared about choice, she would recognize it’s none of her business. But contemporary feminism does not actually value choice, except as a means to an ideological end, which is the obliteration of differences between the sexes. The biggest such difference consists in the distinct and disparate demands that reproduction makes on women. Thus in order to equalize the sexes, it is necessary to discourage fertility. Implicit in contemporary feminism is a normative judgment that having children is bad.

The whole thing is good and makes some larger points related to the government mandate for contraception and the ultimate “success” of feminism.

And on another subject in the same issue:

Obama’s class warfare isn’t really about defeating the rich. It’s a divide-and-conquer strategy aimed at trapping the middle class in a much more powerful entitlement state.

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