DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America by David Horowitz

Author:David Horowitz [Horowitz, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Commentary & Opinion, Political Freedom, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Civil Rights
ISBN: 9781974926008
Google: FDxxDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1974926001
Publisher: Humanix Books
Published: 2019-03-05T07:00:00+00:00

Freedom from Responsibility

What Christians experienced as a war against their families, their communities, and their values was the result of the left’s “transformative” agendas. The motivating ideas of the leftist offensive brooked no compromise. If the right to abortion was part of a plan to replace traditional religion and its values in ways that would affect “not only thinking on abortion but the whole spectrum of moral questions,” what room was there for compromise with their religious opponents? It was a prescription for conflicts that were irreconcilable.

The radical position left opponents with no moral ground to occupy. Thus, the feminist claim that abortion rights must be viewed “within the wide context of the oppression of women in sexual hierarchical society” cast opponents of abortion as “oppressors.” This removed those who disagreed with the feminist view from the community of voices concerned about the welfare of women. It dismissed their arguments without considering them. They were “sexist” and “anti-woman.” If opponents of abortion are viewed as anti-woman, their concerns for the 60 million babies that have been aborted since Roe v. Wade are morally tainted.

Within the ranks of the left, discussions of the social impacts of the feminist position were rendered impossible. Consider the harm feminist positions caused in the African American community. According to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in 2013 more African American babies were aborted (29,007) than were born (24,758) in the city.17 Why is a discussion of this off-limits among leftists? Because any suggestion that abortion causes social harm is an attack on women’s “reproductive freedom,” and thus on women, and thus morally reprehensible.

Feminists mobilize their supporters behind the “right to choose,” which they claim is necessary to establish the absolute autonomy of the liberated woman. “Pro-choice,” the banner under which they march, means the unconditional right to an abortion, a concept that implies a liberation from biology and its consequences, and from any moral obligations associated with the ability to bear children.

But there is a sleight of hand in the slogan itself. Before making the choice to have an abortion, a woman makes many other choices that radicals simply ignore: There is the choice to have sex and the choice of whom to have sex with. There is the choice to get pregnant and the choice that led to getting pregnant. Or to remaining pregnant until an abortion becomes the only way to terminate the pregnancy. Ever since the introduction of the “morning-after pill,” women have had a “plan B” available to prevent fertilization from taking place up to three days after intercourse.

Moreover, there has always been another choice available that radical feminists don’t like to talk about: The choice to give life to the child through adoption. This is a positive choice that the pro-abortion movement never speaks of. What feminists are actually demanding is not, in fact, the freedom to choose. They are demanding to be free from responsibility for their choices.

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