In the beginning, feminism was a threat; it was a provocation to the male-dominated society. In time, the early rise of feminism proved to be a success and, today, we thank all those women who risked their lives challenging society.
A real feminist... opposes abortion...- Charlene Valentina Giordimaina
However, feminism as we know it today is different from the feminism that existed back then. Today, feminism is not about women being equal to men but it is about dictating, about demanding “rights” that, sometimes, are not rights at all. Today, feminism is no longer liberal; it is radical. It is the radical feminism that has dismissed feminism out of hand.
I am sure that most of us heard about the Planned Parenthood “health centre”, as they like to call themselves. Planned Parenthood is nothing more than an organisation that promotes and performs abortion on hundreds of thousands of women per year in the name of “women’s rights”. This ideology of radical feminism is incompatible with the pro-life view. True feminism, as were the early feminists, would never recognise this sort of trend.
A real feminist is self-giving and provides love. She opposes abortion, not only out of pity for the child but also because of the dignity of the child. Women, out of their very nature, are loving and emotional; never would they choose to kill their own child except in extreme situations.
When a woman feels comfortable with killing her unborn child, either because education has taught her so or because society has dictated so, she has greatly failed. It is for this reason that pro-abortion radical feminists do not call a human embryo a child but “a bunch of cells” or, simply, “a pregnancy issue”.
And, so, the pro-abortionists, in their own interest, create numerous delusions that alienate the mother from reality. A pro-abortionist must understand that, by killing your baby, it doesn’t make you an unpregnant mother; it simply makes you the mother of a dead baby. Similarly, not wanting the baby would not stop it from developing. A wanted and an unwanted baby both, eventually, lead to a born child that, one day, will become a fully-grown adult if nature permits.
Funnily enough, when pro-abortionists realise that there is no other way from escaping the scientific truth that a human embryo in the mother’s womb is a human being, which has nothing less in value than an already born child, they finally admit that abortion is murder. “However,” they say, “abortion is a murder that we allow to occur… in the name of women’s rights!”
How can a true feminist ever say something like this? Why is it that pro-abortion people want to destroy the humanity and the dignity of another mother’s child?
It is true that many women, especially young teenage women, experience stress when they get to know about an unplanned pregnancy, but is this the help we want to offer them? Are we telling them that killing their child is the only solution?
Society should offer these stressed women help and support, both financially and emotionally, and not a destructive solution like abortion!
As one might expect, this myth that to be a feminist you necessarily have to be pro-abortion has meant that many women are giving up on feminism. I don’t blame them.
As I have already stated, a true feminist would never agree with abortion because she knows that it is an emotional burden which the woman will have to suffer on her own after the abortion. Few people actually think about what happens to women after they have undergone an abortion.
After an abortion, society, including the family and friends, become indifferent as to what is happening to the woman now. They expect that now, simply because the abortion is over and the woman is no longer pregnant (which many might think that is what she wanted in the first place), everything has passed, everything is over and everything is just perfect.
Emotionally, when a woman starts suffering from this traumatic experience of post-abortion syndrome, she feels that she is to blame for killing her own child and that nobody out there can help her.
My message to all the women out there experiencing or who might experience this in the future is that if you feel that you need help, seek it. Nobody is going to point fingers at you and judge you.
If we didn’t really believe that the human person has no dignity, then we wouldn’t have laws that prohibit the killing of adults. If we cannot kill adults, nor can we kill babies and whether on the day s/he is born and or a day earlier a baby is still a baby.
My concluding message to all the feminists today is one: feminism is not about being pro-abortion, feeling that the liberty to have an abortion is a right that a woman should have. Abortion does not help women but it breaks them.
So, please, whenever you speak to a pregnant woman who feels stressed out due to an unplanned pregnancy, provide her with courage and strength because that is all feminism is about!
The author is general secretary of +9STUDENTI.