Posted on 04/19/2016 9:48:42 PM PDT by kathsua
In the new book Feisty & Feminine: A Rallying Cry for Conservative Women, author Penny Young Nance encourages females tired of the feminist War on Women rhetoric to make their voices heard. Nance covers a range of topics, from sexual assault to anti-Semitism, from Islamic extremism to the daily Mommy challenge of balancing work and family.
In a chapter on “Abortion and the Sanctity of Life,” Nance says that nothing could have prepared her for the day her daughter Claire was born:
“Suddenly, everything I knew about love changed. I can only describe it as feeing like that scene in How the Grinch Stole Christmas: my heart grew three times its normal size.”
Nance argues that an unwanted pregnancy does not mean an unwanted child—that many women struggle with their feelings on pregnancy and parenthood. But those feelings can be vetted and effectively dealt with through the support offered by organizations such as pregnancy care centers—centers staffed by, in Nance’s words, “compassionate, caring people who are there to love you, not to judge.”
The Concerned Women for America CEO notes, “We are told that abortion is not a big deal; that it’s a humane choice for the unborn baby; and that to be anti-abortion is to be anti-women. Guess what? None of this is true. And it’s time we got the facts straight.”
Nance goes on to discuss the development of the unborn child and that viability is “a moving target,” since premature babies can live outside their mothers’ wombs at earlier stages than ever before.
She also talks about the risks of abortion—including the fact that a number of abortion centers operate outside normal medical care standards because they are so often unregulated. Nance writes that Americans United for Life has reported that, over the past seven years, “at least 86 abortion providers in 29 states have faced investigations, criminal charges, civil lawsuits, and administrative complaints for substandard treatment (for) violating state abortion laws.”
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Of course, the most famous of these lawbreakers was abortionist Kermit Gosnell, the Pennsylvanian suspected of killing hundreds of full-term babies and maiming scores of women. He was ultimately convicted in the deaths of three infants and one woman, because charges could not be filed in many instances since he had destroyed records.
One of the most pointed sections of the book deals with the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, which, Nance states, received $1.18 billion in state and federal Medicaid dollars between 2010 and 2012. One of every four abortions takes place in a Planned Parenthood facility, causing them to perform more than 324,000 abortions in a given year.
“Planned Parenthood is not a guardian of women’s health,” Nance writes. “They don’t help women choose from a range of options. When a pregnant woman comes to Planned Parenthood for help, 98 percent of the time she aborts her baby, and they make a profit,” Nance adds.
But Nance does not simply point to a parade of grim realities. She also offers advice to women who are tired of Planned Parenthood’s rhetoric and empty promises:
“It is with compassion that we must share the facts and speak our minds. This is not about winning a theoretical argument; it is about the suffering of women, the loss of children, and the need to find compassionate, effective answers to a terrible national stain.”
By relating scientific facts—about what exactly takes place in an abortion, what it does to the child, and what impact it can have on the mother—women can provide valuable information to other women.
Finally, Nance calls on women to vote their values. “If someone running for public office does not understand or believe in the necessity of respecting life from conception to natural death,” Nance writes, “then he or she does not possess the judgment required to lead our nation.”
Totally agree! The women that stood up for women’s rights at the start like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Louisa May Alcott and Susan B. Anthony were overwhelmingly pro-life and saw abortion as a convenience for men to shirk their responsibilities. They worked to protect women and children from abortion. It is the pro-aborts who are really waging a war on women - not those who want to respect and protect innocent human life.
Those women you mention were indeed vey pro life. It took eugenicists like Margaret Sanger to begin to co-opt the women’s movement toward anti life.
Exactly. Very well stated! I’ve wondered the same thing. Such ignorance. Not just in the sense of “not knowing,” although it is certainly that, but also the ignoring of what knowledge and resources might be available, that is, “willful ignorance.” One could make a case that willful ignorance is worse than simply being uninformed, or not knowing.
Penny Nance was interviewed on Andrew Wilkow’s radio show recently. (I thought he said, “Pen and ants” at first ...)
Sanger was despicable but she did not promote abortion.
She called it an “abomination”.
Planned Parenthood doesn’t want you to know that.
In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, which led to her arrest for distributing information on contraception. Her subsequent trial and appeal generated controversy. Sanger felt that in order for women to have a more equal footing in society and to lead healthier lives, they needed to be able to determine when to bear children. She also wanted to prevent unsafe abortions, so-called back-alley abortions,[3] which were common at the time because abortions were usually illegal.[citation needed] She believed that while abortion was sometimes justified it should generally be avoided, and she considered contraception the only practical way to avoid the use of abortions.[4]
Sanger opposed abortion, but primarily as a societal ill and public health danger that would disappear if women were able to prevent unwanted pregnancy.[18]
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger)
I have no doubt that Sanger would approve of safer modern day abortion procedures and be proud that the organization she founded is the largest provider of them. That even today these services are located predominantly in minority areas and abortions make up their primary and largest financial income source shows Sanger’s ideals of “negative eugenics*” survive.
*the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed superior.
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