The Sisterhood: 27 Years Later

Twenty-seven years ago, nine black-robed men handed feminists a triumph that would try our souls, and - I have come to believe - find them wanting.

On Jan. 22, 1973, when the "Sisterhood is Powerful" crowd rejoiced at the outcome of Roe vs. Wade, I was with them - a Washington radical feminist scholar/abortion rights advocate, much in demand as a spokeswoman by virtue of my motherhood. After all, who better to illustrate the righteous need for abortion than a young woman with a future, already encumbered by a 3-year-old in day care?

Five years later in San Francisco, that same little girl clutched my hand as we struggled against the chilly Van Ness Avenue wind on our way to some euphemistically styled "women's health clinic."

"Samantha," I explained, ever the politically vigilant parent, "Mommy is pregnant. But since Jasmine's only 2 and I'm not married anymore, this just isn't a good time to have a baby. We're lucky women have a choice."

I was proud of the legacy we would leave my daughter's generation. Thanks to the second wave of feminism, abortion was now available, accessible and not much worse than a trip to the dentist. Paid for by the state of California, to boot. And on the morning of my own abortion, I was feeling a little extra righteous. After years of posturing and sloganeering, I finally had an opportunity to demonstrate my core beliefs - like a rite of passage.

And in the 27 years since Roe vs. Wade, isn't that what it's now become? Consider the sacred ground around abortion temples, free speech suspended so as not to hinder partaking of the ritual within and abortion providers occupying pedestals for their noble efforts. Heretics dare not blaspheme by calling a fetus a baby or what happens to it murder. And as though in the grip of a state religion, the media use only sanctioned terms: pro-choice, reproductive rights, products of conception.

Consider: While every other political group is permitted to baptize itself and demonstrate publicly, those who call themselves pro-life are branded by the media anti-abortion extremists and charged with racketeering.

But who's extreme? For all the left's vaunted respect for multiculturalism, pro-abortion evangels - like missionaries of old - spend vast amounts of time, energy and taxpayer money crusading into the Third World to bring the "good news" of "family planning" to primitives whose backward belief systems stand in the way of their salvation. Like religious zealots arriving on your doorstep when what you really need is an ambulance, they rush to ravaged lands such as Kosovo with abortion kits aplenty for those in dire need of more life-sustaining commodities such as medicine, food and water.

And what about here at home? In the United States, according to the very pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute, 34 million abortions took place from 1973 to 1996. That's a million and a half per year. Who knows what genius men and women were whooshed away from our midst and with them what art, what music, what inventions, what cures.

How about it, sisters? Especially those of you who rode the crest of the second wave with me: Did you ever dream that this was where we were headed? Did you ever dream we would call a politician a friend to women - no matter how flagrantly he exploited them - as long as he continued to back abortion on demand? Did you ever dream we would enter the realms of denial required to condone a procedure in which a perfectly viable infant is pulled feet first through the birth canal until all but herhead is exposed, then stabbed in the skull to suck out her brains, delivered dead and sold to the highest bidder for body parts?

That's "a certain type of late-term procedure," according to modern feminists, who have twisted themselves like pretzels to pretend the dream did not turn into a nightmare.

Perhaps it's time to wake up and slap some cold water on our faces. Time to stop the hypocrisy, to sever the ideals of feminism - dignity for women, equal status, equal opportunity, equal pay - from what has become a religious devotion to death.

Susan B. Anthony, now featured on our currency, wasn't thinking of political correctness when she referred to abortion as "child murder." Nor when she wrote: "No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her anti-slavery perspective, wrote, "When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."

Mattie Brinkerhoff said: "When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society - so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged."

Think that one over next time you're standing in line at the grocery store - as I was recently - and overhear a teen-age girl nonchalantly discussing with a friend the abortion she's having tomorrow.

Barbara Curtis is an author, freelance writer and mother of many, including two through adoption.

Samantha and Jasmine will ALWAYS worry about what would have happened to them IF it WASN'T a Good Time for their mommy to have them!!

I never had to doubt for ONE second that I was wanted because my mom was pro-life...always and for every reason.

Memo to Pro-Choice Mother's: Your children don't trust that you wouldn't have had the sucked down a sink if they came at a different time. Think about that for a second.

I still have my copy of "Sisterhood is Powerful". I bought it at a garage sale 20 years ago. The lady who sold it to me told me it was one of the required books she had to buy when she went to the University of North Carolina back in the seventies. Most of Hillary Clinton's best friends are featured in that book. It has a couple sections featuring naked witches doing sitdowns and placing hexes on their universities for not allowing something or other. And to think one of their own made it to the White House and influenced policy and made life and death decisions.

The very first things this "sister" did when she took over the White House was to get some of her other "sisters" to come up with some appropriate executive orders essentially making abortion-on-demand the state religion.

To me the most dehumanizing and brutalizing aspect of the femnist movement is what it did to motherhood. With its support of abortion it turned pregnant women, who throughout history have been honored as the most selfless and most dedicated protectors of defenseless children, potentially into their most lethal enemy. The feminists' "right to choose" poses a fundamental conflict of interest between mother and unborn child. It elevates to the status of a "right" the ability of a pregnant women to make a selfish, degrading and inhumane "choice" to dispose of a life merely because it is inconvenient, and even more grotesquely, because one simply has the power to do so.

Women gave up an exaulted and very necessary role as the ultimate protectors and defenders of children when they embraced the "choice" to kill their own unborn child. But children gave up more. Legalized abortion has robbed children of their one dependable champion through all of history -- their own mother! To think that the human race will not pay (is not already paying) an incredible price for making this "choice" is to deny history and all knowledge of human nature.

Well put! My daughter is due on May 31, her third. I have the ultrasound picture of my next grandbaby as my computer wallpaper. The ultrasound was taken on January 9, and you can make out a beautiful, fully-formed baby.

Your post and an ultrasound picture of a baby should be required reading for all young women.

Birth control and abortion result in men being that much more free to use women for promiscuous sex and discard them without consequence.

Bingo !!!
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