In the minds of radical feminists, men and women are engaged in an ongoing power struggle. This notion originates from their Marxist heritage. Karl Marx, whose writings led to the disaster of communism, believed that, “society was dominated by a struggle between the bourgeoisie (owners of production) and the proletariat (workers).” Although Marx says nothing about a struggle between men and women, the feminists adapted his revolutionary rhetoric to their own cause. Feminists believe that for women to win their struggle, they must have total control over child bearing and be capable of killing their unborn children on demand. Moreover, there is no true power struggle between men and women. If an independent observer were to visit Earth to study the interactions between men and women, he would not find a state of ongoing war. He would not observe roving bands of men forcing women to produce children, they do not desire. He would instead acquire the knowledge that, in most cases, men and women survive very well together. The feminists have created this struggle myth to advance their political power. Unfortunately, they also created our American holocaust.
It is ironic that the same people who support abortion today criticize the ideologies that supported other great evils in the past, such as the murder of Jews or confinement of slavery. They cannot see the under lying similarities between their own ideology and those they criticize. For example, the supporters of slavery during the 1800’s widely argued that slavery was good for slaves. They said that it was better to be a Christian slave and go to heaven than to be a heathen in Africa. Today, abortion supporters say that it is better for babies to be aborted than to grow up in a home where they are unwanted. Who are they to decide if a life is meaningless? They seem godless in a faithful culture (Sullivan). Just because a fact withstands that a child is unwanted today does not mean that he is destined to be unwanted for the rest of his or her life. The supporters of the final solution in Hitler’s Germany declared similar arguments when they advocated exterminating the mentally ill and others. During the times of slavery and the holocaust, multitudes of people supported these practices behind the scenes. Without their support, these evils could not have occurred. There is a question to ask those who support abortion today. It is whether they would also support slavery or the holocaust, had they lived through those times.
Nothing illustrates the total depravity of the pro-abortion activists better than their support for partial birth abortion. In this procedure, the baby's head remains inside the Mother and a sharp object punctures the brain. The child is only inches away from having full constitutional rights. This is merely a cynical attempt by the abortionist to kill the baby, collect his fee and not be charged with murder. It is unfathomable that the pro-abortion activists defend this savage procedure. They claim that the life of the Mother would be harmed if the procedure were declared illegal. Of course, there would be no chance for any harm to the Mother if the child were allowed birth and then to be cast off for adoption. This is another desperate lie proclaimed by the pro-abortion activists to prop up their malicious ideology. They seem blind to the fact that, mothers and children have souls. Within every abortion, one soul is destroyed and another wounded (Sullivan). They realize that by allowing the practice of partial birth abortion, the other pro-abortion lies would fall like a house of cards.
For illustration purposes, assume that the practice of drinking milk was widely considered immoral. Furthermore, say that the evilness of drinking milk was obvious to everyone, including children. What is the best way for a minority of milk drinkers to allow their behavior to be accepted by the majority? The milk drinkers know that they cannot convince enough people to accept their position by direct argument alone. The only way to get their immoral behavior accepted would be to change the definition of commonly understood words. For example, they may begin referring to milk as flavored water. To drink flavored water is not immoral. The pro-abortion activists have foisted on us this same semantic game. They have changed the meaning of the word life. They say that an unborn baby is not alive. It is only a mass of tissue such as a tumor. Every child in America knows that this is a lie. They have changed the meaning of murder and killing. They say performing an abortion is not the same as killing a child. They have come to seem indifferent to pain, almost glib in the face of human tragedy (Sullivan). They refer to the unborn child as a fetus. Fetus is a perfectly good Latin word for fruitful or bringing forth. However, it sounds inhuman to our ears. They even removed the name of their movement from pro-abortion to pro-choice. You see it is widely believed in this country that individuals should be free to make their own choices. The name pro-choice gives the abortion movement an aura of American liberty and apple pie. Slavery supporters played the same semantic games in their own time. They often claimed that a slave was not considered a human. He was only property. Property can be acquired and even destroyed, at the convenience of the owner. In the same way, a slave could be bought, sold, or killed. Nazis also played the same semantic games. They claimed that Jews were inferior humans. This enabled them to carry out the holocaust while hidden in the darkness of the confined concentration camps.
The pro-abortion activists always claim that they are protecting the lives of women by maintaining abortion rights. Rest assured that their efforts have nothing to do with protecting the lives of women. Mainly it deals with maintaining their political power. By repeating this lie, they are able to slander anti-abortionists by accusing them of not caring for women. Of course, this is not true, for they care compassionately about the lives of women. They also care about the lives of their children. For too long, supporters of abortion rights have foolishly and callously trivialized the moral dimensions of the act of ending human life in the womb. They have insisted that no profound moral cost is involved (Sullivan). Upon listening to the rhetoric of the pro-abortion activists, they lead a convincing argument that, most abortions are committed to save the life of the Mother. Almost all abortions are committed for the purposes of convenience and economics. To dramatize the “need” for safe and legal abortions, activists frequently present before the people an image of desperate women engaging in dangerous back-alley abortions where a wire is used. They have even succeeded in turning a clothes hanger into a symbol to present this image. To fall for this, one must have a low opinion about the intelligence of women. Surely, few if any women would allow themselves to be mutilated in this manner. Those that would have other problems that legalized abortion would not cure. How many millions of children are the pro-abortion activists willing to sacrifice to save a select few mentally deranged women? Another lie used against anti-abortionists is that they lack care for the child. The pro-abortion activists portray anti-abortionists as stressing to put the abandoned children pried from the clutches of abortion into impoverished orphanages. Although the children would find this better than their fate at the hands of the pro-abortion activists, it is simply a falsified statement. Many of the children saved from abortion would be wanted by their extended families. Others would find homes within the arms of adoptive families. If successful in preventing any more abortions, there would be no need to cram unwanted children into restricting orphanages.
The abortion providers' benefit directly from every abortion they commit. Ever since President Clinton removed restrictions on fetal research early on in his term, the abortion providers have been selling late term baby parts for research to pharmaceutical companies and universities. Unfortunately, this creates a huge economic incentive to continue abortion. The selling of baby parts is the incentive behind the partial birth abortion procedure. The normal abortion procedures destroy the baby’s body. Abortionists needed a way to kill babies and not damage their parts. Abortion providers as well as some in the convenience crowd argue that we may as well use the parts instead of wasting them. However, this same flawed logic led to the inhuman medical experiments on twins during the holocaust. These abortion providers truly have blood on their hands. They can only carry out their evil intentions while hidden in the lowly shadows of the abortion clinics. They are the equivalent of the gas chamber operators during the holocaust and the slave traders during slavery. They will certainly receive their reward in the next life.
The key to success is drowning out the pro-abortion message. The feminists were able to stealthily sneak the Roe v. Wade decision past the American people without lifting a finger. There is a dire need to extract the "coolness" out of being pro-choice. When this occurs, the shallow politicians who wear the pro-choice label, as a badge of honor will drop it like a hot potato. There has never been a continual anti-abortion advertising campaign over the entire nation. The pro-abortion side has captured the media. Therefore, the pro-life need to bypass it with their own message and go directly to the American people. The churches and synagogues need to be fully mobilized in the fight against this evil. They have been silenced every time the enemy yells the magic words “separation of church and state”. The leaders of churches and synagogues should not be bullied. They should strongly encourage all their members to register to vote and to vote particularly for pro-life candidates. The issue of abortion is not just a political one. It is just as much a religious issue. It drives straight to the heart of pro-life beliefs.
The right to abortion remains a highly debatable proposition, both jurisprudentially and morally (Wittes). As a final analogy, ponder back on the events during the Civil War. At first, things went sour for the North. The Confederates in the South, although outnumbered, were winning most of the battles. Then, President Lincoln appointed Grant as Lieutenant General of all Union Armies. At the time, the common practice of warfare was to rest after fighting a battle. Both sides would withdraw, not only to bury their dead, but also to recuperate and obtain supplies. However, Grant changed this practice. He was a bulldog, and his instincts told him to follow through with attack after attack. This strategy was pursued for almost a year, and it buckled the knees of the Confederate army. To end abortion, consider the need to follow the exact precise orders, apply the idea to attack repeatedly and without rest, not with lies and distortion, but with the truth given to us by God. Acknowledge up front the pain of abortion and its moral gravity (Sullivan). Life must prevail over death. If the pro-abortion forces are strong, it is because of the pro-life defensive weaknesses. By faithfulness and stubborn adherence to the truth, the pro-life activists will prevail. In a free society, the ability of a woman to control what happens to her own body will always and should always be weighed in the balance against the right of an unborn child to life itself (Sullivan). It is by God’s help that they as a people will overcome this plague of abortion that has infected our land. Beyond the polarizing rhetoric, a simple message: saving one precious life at a time (Sullivan).