How on earth did we women ever get the vote? If intellectual
acumen were a requirement for suffrage today, we'd still be
waiting for our shot at the ballot box. Fortunately, the
pioneering suffragettes who fought for the 19th Amendment had
their heads screwed on tight - unlike the "Sex and the
City" groupies who think abortion as birth control is
something worth fighting for. Five girls from Queens are holding
a Brooklyn beer fund-raiser this week for their poor sisters in
South Dakota, who've lost their right to kill their babies in
utero.
Tut, tut, Alicia, strong words, you may say - but truthful
language is such a rarity in these days of euphemism and spin.
Words like "abortion" and "pregnancy
termination" do not sound so bad, but "killing your
baby" is a valid description of the procedure, and real
suffragettes did not shy away from it.
I can't blame these modern women for being ignorant of feminist
history, because so much of it has been censored. Recently, HBO
aired "Iron Jawed Angels," which concentrated on the
radical wing of the suffrage movement. Oscar winner Hillary Swank
portrayed Alice Paul, who organized a march on Washington and was
the author of the original Equal Rights Amendment in 1923. What
is missing, of course, is any indication that Paul did not want
to link abortion to women's rights. "Abortion is the
ultimate exploitation of women," a colleague of hers quotes
her as saying.
Whenever we quote the anti-abortion remarks of the early
suffragettes, their comments are dismissed by abortion advocates,
who claim that it was the danger and the expense that these
suffragettes objected to. I'm not a mind reader, but read the
quotes of Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and others on www.feministsforlife.org and you won't
doubt that these brave women had the respect for the unborn that
is missing from the current breed of young women.
In the e-mail announcing the Brooklyn event, one of the
organizers is quoted as saying, "There's no way I want to
live in a country where my daughters might have to drive to
Canada just to get birth control." A recent study conducted
by the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that abortions for women
over 25 have increased, and that these women often are having
multiple "procedures." Abortion as birth control? This
is the way abortion was used in the old Soviet Union, and Russia
is now in a demographic death spiral. What ever happened to the
condom or, better yet, self-control?
The beer fund-raiser at a Brooklyn pub, Cafe Grumpy in
Greenpoint, is supposed to benefit Planned Parenthood of South
Dakota's legal fund. Incidentally, this "nonprofit" is
a billiondollar foundation that receives both federal and state
funding and yet charges up front for abortions. I'm sure the
Queens femmes are being hailed as heroines for organizing this
event, but I prefer fund-raisers and their sponsors who support
truly worthwhile organizations - those that respect life.
According to one of the organizers, they are surprised by the
outpouring of support they're getting from the community in their
quest to help their sisters in South Dakota. Now why should they
be surprised? This is New York City, the abortion capital of the
nation, where women drag their daughters for third-term
abortions. This is the town where a pro-lifer contacted a
well-known daily newspaper columnist to let her know about an
outdoor rally for women who were traumatized by abortion, and was
told, "Get over it." Let's face it, the women in this
town worship at the altar of abortion without even realizing that
men, not women, get to eat the cake and have it, too.
No, I'm not at all surprised that there's so much support for the
"choice" crowd here in New York, because whenever I
look at what these ohso-chic young women are wearing in lieu of
clothing, I'm convinced that many are incapable of an
intellectually challenging thought. Otherwise, they'd think twice
about getting tattoos.
So have your beer party, my dears, and fork over the dough to
Planned Parenthood of South Dakota. Petition the governor with
the wire hangers you plan to send - but remember that everything
that was stated as fact about Roe v. Wade was a lie. Those 10,000
annual coat hanger abortion deaths cited by NARAL were actually
fewer than a hundred. Just ask Bernard Nathanson, the co-founder
of NARAL who is now pro-life as is Norma McCovey, the original
Jane Roe.
The theme of your beer fund-raiser is, "Can You Believe
We're Still Fighting for This?"
Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for president said,
"The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they
remain the foetus."
Smart women know that life is worth fighting for, not death.