But first, a satire titled:
Three premises to exempt men from the
abortion debate.
1. 1.) BECAUSE
INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES ARE DETERMINED BY GENDER, demand
that only
the gender affected by certain topics may use their GENDER-SPECIFIC INTELLECT to come to a reasoned and logical
conclusion.
2. 2.) Argue against the science behind human
development. Throw out all the
embryology textbooks, as well as the entire Human Genome Project. Also, bury any and all evidence from Planned
Parenthood’s campaign to legalize Birth Control – like THIS PLANNED PARENTHOOD BROCHURE FROM
1964.
3. 3.) Recognize that human life is the resultant
of ANY volitional, loving RELATIONSHIP, so that any two partners may express their love
for one another in a way that produces offspring. As Sir Elton John crooned, “all you need is
love.”
Now
for reason to step in, because satire feels condescending; and truth is far
more desirable than falsehoods.
In the spirit of
full-disclosure, I am a feminist. Granted, this is not a popular label amongst
the evangelicals with whom I most frequently converse (did you catch that? Yes, I’m also a Christian – another disclosure).
Yet I was raised and remain to this day a dyed-in-the-wool feminist. In fact, it is my faith in Jesus that
concretely grounds my whole-hearted belief that women have been endowed with
the same existential qualities and should therefore be afforded the same
ontological rights as their male counter parts.
I am also post-abortive. That means that I’ve had an abortion. Yet, I’m Pro-Life. Hypocritical?
No. In truth, it is
because I’ve had an abortion that I am Pro-Life.
None of the above labels,
nor any of my life experiences, exclude me from logically considering the issue
of abortion. To wit, I offer the
following counter-points to the satirical premises above that seek to preclude men
from engaging in the abortion debate.
1.) If we feminist are going to demand that gender has NO determinate effect on
intellect or reasoning ability, in order to maintain our intellectual
credibility, we have to hold this stance in the abortion debate as well. We must honor and heed our convictions:
gender has no bearing on one’s ability to reason. Therefore, men may utilize their intellectual
faculties and reasoning abilities when examining the issue of abortion.
2.) We
have to examine the science behind human development. Seriously.
Pick up an embryology textbook. Admit
that the nation’s largest abortion broker, Planned Parenthood, defined abortion as a procedure that “kills
the life of a baby after it has begun,” to encourage the palatability of
birth control in the 1960’s. Realize
that even cognizant Pro-Abortion philosophers recognize that individual human
life begins at insemination.
“A human fetus after all is simply a
human being at a very early stage of his or her development.”
-- David Boonin, A Defense of Abortion[1]
Therefore, arguing on
behalf of the life of another member of the species, Homo sapiens, is not a gender-specific endeavor. Thus, males are able to argue against
anything that ends the life of another human, be that lethal injection, guns,
or abortions. Because at any stage of
our development, we are all still human.
3.) We
have to recognize that in order to produce human offspring, sperm from a male
is one of two requisite ingredients
for a human child. Thus, every embryo
has two parties responsible for its existence.
One Female. One Male.
Ergo, males DO have an inherent responsibility in reference to the
resulting human life. This irrefutable
truth means that ABORTION IS A MAN’S
ISSUE, TOO.
These premises indicate
that every human may engage in the debate regarding abortion. It is illogical and irresponsible, and
frankly makes us look like hysterical alarmists, for women to scream “Get
Out of My Uterus” to men who are respectfully and thoughtfully arguing either for
or against abortion.
And looking like hysterical
alarmists is detrimental to the feminist movement they are claiming to promote.
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