"There was also the testimony of Dr. Elizabeth Shadigian, best known as a stalwart of the abortion-gives-you-breast-cancer misinformation campaign. She said that teenage girls are always the victims of sexual activity because ''there's always a power differential between a boy and a girl." When girls have sex, they aren't doing, she said, ''they have been done to.""
Wow, what a backward view of women. She totally removes the possibliity of women making a free choice.
70's Feminist Lack-O-Logic alert.
"Wow, what a backward view of women. She totally removes the possibliity of women making a free choice."
That's one way to read it, but I took her to mean that any consequence resulting from the activity (ie pregnancy) rests with women, and always will rest with women. Abortion is supported, in large part, by individuals who believe in sexual equality, and abortion removes the "burden" of consequence for sexually active women, allowing sexual activity to continue unfettered, in the manner wrongly supposed of males ... no guilt and no repercussions. The trouble with all this idealism about equality is that it completely blows past the fact that another human life has been created, and that the ultimate inequality is perpetuated by denying the humanity of that life. So, this "burden" is still there, just removed from sight, to fester in the backs of the minds of these women. There are also medical consequences, in addition to the psychological, but any discussion of this has been rapidly discredited.
A 15-year-old girl is not a "woman" any more than a 15-year-old boy is a "man". You're a woman or a man when you can raise and support a child, as well as conceive one.