Posted on 04/29/2009 1:33:31 PM PDT by CMoran325
Another pro-life feminist foremother was embraced -- perhaps "absconded" would be a better description -- by the pro-choice activists who honored her yesterday at the unveiling of a memorial in the nation's Capitol.
The accounts I have read in the WashPo http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042803936.html?sub=AR and on pro-abortion blogs praised the life of Sojourner Truth, acknowledging her activism for abolition, against the death penalty and for -- as they reported it -- the vague "women's rights."
Now we all know that when those two words are mentioned in public, a pro-abortion stance is implied. The reporters and attendees of the memorial conveniently failed to mention that Sojourner Truth -- like every single one of her feminist contemporaries -- was against abortion.
I thought it interesting that one of those pro-abortion blogs quoted Truth's most famous speech, not recognizing the obvious pro-life feminist message:
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? ...I have borne thirteen children, and seen them most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me. And ain't I a woman?"
Sojourner Truth knew the strength of women. She knew they could do anything -- that childbirth and motherhood would not preclude them from accomplishing great things. She knew women did not need to dispose of their children to achieve equality. She knew that those who do not acknowledge the humanity of the preborn are just like those who denied the personhood of black slaves. She called abortion what it is, and decried it as the evil it is.
So it was disheartening to see the likes of the uber-pro-abortion Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi acting as if they are deserved to honor this great champion of the oppressed. And when Michelle Obama declared that she thought Truth would have been proud of her -- a descendant of slaves -- as First Lady, she was only partly right. Sojourner Truth would have been pleased at the position, but appalled at the abortion agenda that helped put Obama there.
Face it.
After we are dead, we will all be “gay” and “pro-choice”.
Better to get your life on record, somehow, than to have the left pervert it after you’re dead.
Hey, if The Duke can sell beers and Fred Astaire can sell sweepers, who knows what you’ll be selling 100 years from now.
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