Leftists: Being Pro-Life Is Selfish, Good People Endorse Murder
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That doesn’t sound selfish or narcissistic to me. By contrast, let’s take a look at what pass for the values of “real mothers” in Hirshman’s world. She says Boxer’s pro-choice views are far more substantively grounded, for she holds them in the name of “women’s rights, women’s health, and the ability to control our own lives.” But this is neither a reason nor an argument; it is a platitude. It doesn’t account for either of the two main problems with the logic of “reproductive freedom”:
- Whether or not the embryos and fetuses destroyed by abortion are human beings (they are) which have natural rights of their own (they do). Simply put, there can be no right to murder.
- Whether or not the legal ability to abort babies really is necessary for women to be free. The proposition is absurd, for three reasons. First, virtually every pregnancy is preventable; the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute’s own statistics (PDF link) show that fewer than 1.5% of women cite rape or incest as the reason for their abortion. Second, female babies get aborted too; doesn’t women’s liberation extend to them? (Indeed, in some parts of the world, abortion is a favored tool of sexism.) Third, even voluntary abortions can do plenty of harm to the very women left-wing feminists claim to speak for.
The rationale Boxer deploys to justify her anti-humanitarian position doesn’t even try to address or refute any of this. Neither does Linda Hirshman. Both simply clothe their views in the trappings of justice to undermine justice, demonizing anyone who stands in their way with moral authority they don’t actually have.
Demanding that innocents die in the name of your sex and “freedom” is the real narcissistic impulse here. One can only hope that, with the rise of Sarah Palin and Carly Fiorina’s “mama grizzlies,” we’re witnessing the final throes of this morally obscene version of feminism.
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Hailing from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Calvin Freiburger is a political science major at Hillsdale College. He also writes for the Hillsdale Forum and his personal website, Calvin Freiburger Online.
