Posted on 12/09/2021 5:43:15 AM PST by Kaslin
As the Supreme Court determines whether to preserve the Court-created "right to abortion" under Roe v. Wade, those on the feminist Left have gone into full-blown panic mode. Women's rights, they insist, will implode without granting women the ability to abort their children; only that ability can equalize the natural inequalities of biology, by which women are saddled with the burden of childbearing and child rearing.
This war with biology is central to the Left's definition of autonomy itself. In the pages of The New York Times, Democratic activist Elizabeth Spiers made this perfectly clear in arguing that abortion ought to be considered the moral alternative to adoption. "When I awoke," she writes, "my son would wake up shortly after and I'd feel him turning and stretching, or less pleasantly, jamming his precious little foot into what felt like my cervix. This is one of the paradoxes of pregnancy: something alien is usurping your body and sapping you of nutrition and energy, but you're programmed to gleefully enable it and you become desperately protective of it. It's a kind of biological brainwashing."
Biological brainwashing.
The same people who maintain that your biology dictates that you can be a man in a woman's body and that this represents not gender dysphoria -- truly, a form of biological brainwashing -- but an objective reality to which all of society should conform also argue that biology creates morally unjust connections between mother and child. As Spiers says, "biological brainwashing ... occurs during pregnancy"; mothers cannot "simply choose not to bond with a child she's gestating solely on the basis that she is not ready to be a mother or believes that she is unable to provide for the child." This means that women should consider killing the child rather than putting it up for adoption.
The language of "biological brainwashing" doesn't stop with the bond between mother and child. This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the spectacularly dull Instagram star, characterized opposition to abortion as the legalization of "forced birth." In her view, biology itself is an imposition on women (the Left conveniently drops its Orwellian "birthing people" lingo when abortion is at stake); ending a pregnancy by killing an unborn child is a restoration of the natural order.
Precisely the opposite is true, of course. A predictable result of sex -- in fact, the evolutionary biological purpose of sex -- is procreation. The process by which conception results in birth is continuous and natural. Interfering in that process by forced killing of an unborn human life is definitionally unnatural.
But so is the entire Leftist worldview by which true autonomy represents an opposition between spirit and flesh. According to the Left, any check on our ambitions -- even a check provided by the reality of biology -- must be overcome in order to establish true equality of opportunity. Women are different than men in biology; therefore, biology must be opposed.
The results of this madness are obvious: men and women alienated from themselves, angry at the realities of life, willing to forgo perhaps the greatest joy of existence -- the perpetuation of the human species through the birth of children. But other civilizations are not so suicidal. While we amuse ourselves to death, solipsistically focused on our own subjective sense of autonomy, other civilizations recognize, at the very least, that biology is an inescapable reality. Those civilizations that best conform to the beauty of that reality will thrive. Those that do not will destroy themselves.
People like this did too many meds as a child.
by which women are saddled with the burden of childbearing
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Maybe they should shake their fists at God. He did it & for a reason.
As with biological reality, so with all reality. The Left is at war with truth. They live in a gaslit universe where good is evil and evil is good. See Isaiah 5:20 (in case you don’t care to go there, it says: “Woe unto them”).
It is precisely what they are doing.
I have said this since the first of two rapes I endured as a teen and late teen:
1) If I carry this pregnancy to completion I will “adopt” and then adapt. There will be no death and I will raise this child to not only respect the humans s/he he meets but to honor in every respect them all life. If they when they are older, people who are dangerous or seem so, I will teach them to avoid those people...even if that means extra methods have to be used. If the people just make their skins crawl, they must make an effort to totally shut down the relationship
2) If I am able to, I will teach them caution and caring, examining all life to determine if they should continue the interaction. And I will teach them meditation and, hopefully, they will eventually understand how immense is the Universe and how all that resides within it are wonderful to see, know and share (if any of that is possible).
I must say raising a child is very difficult especially as they follow the group that deliberately operates against parental caring. It can be equally difficult to raise a thoughtful and caring child. I had 3 kids and they are as different nuts are to carrots or spinach. I do not think I was very successful and even at 82, they are quick to tell me so,,,it is too bad we couldn’t even find advisors for our tutalage of children...other than fat Freudians. Ha!
The whole point of feminism in general, and abortion in particular, is the right to be selfish. Of course this selfishness by women produces selfishness by men who also forego their obligations and responsibilities, seeking only their own good and viewing women in that light. As a result the entire society falls apart, descending into isolated and self-serving wretchedness. Much, if not most, of the problems with the world today flow from the denial of our creation as male and female, and the proper roles and responsibilities that come with that creation.
Those who support the killing of the unborn...will eventually support the killing of the born...
Yep, I know what you mean!
And it only makes it harder when they outnumber you!
Thanks for sharing your story. You and your children are in my prayers.
They are already. I've convinced that a big reason the left is in favor of abortion and in favor of perverted sex is to make sure they're not in agreement with religion. It's absolute heresy to them to be in agreement with religion on any issue.
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