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April 25, 2017  |  By Outside Source In Abortion, Pro-Life News

Abortion Activist: Killing Their Babies in Abortions Allows Women to be on “Equal Footing” With Men

Some people argue that gender equality requires legalized abortion. After all, the challenges of pregnancy and childbirth fall on women but not on men. Only with access to abortion, then, can women be truly equal and free to determine the course of their lives.

“Pregnancy and childbirth … serve to restrict women’s ability to participate in society on equal footing with men,” writes feminist author Katha Pollitt. “[W]e must … ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams,” says former President Barack Obama.

Some legal scholars, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, aim to ground a constitutional right to abortion in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (“no state shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”) rather than in the Due Process Clause (as the Court did in Roe v. Wade). Equality under the law, they say, requires abortion access.

This argument does not withstand scrutiny. First, unequal burdens don’t justify the killing of innocent human beings. The burdens of caring for five-year-old children, for example, fall disproportionately on the parents of five-year-old children. Laws against killing or abandoning five-year-olds do not affect everyone in the same way—one might even claim that they deprive parents of “the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities” as non-parents. But clearly they are not wrong.

Likewise, the challenges of pregnancy fall on women and not men, and a law against killing unborn children by abortion would impact women in a way that it does not impact men. But such a law would not be unjust for that reason. Laws may affect people differently given different circumstances, but that does not mean that they treat people differently. Everyone should be equally prohibited from killing innocent human beings. This prohibition is not gender-specific.

Second, men and women are equally morally responsible for their offspring, even though this obligation can take different forms (women, by virtue of reproductive biology, uniquely gestate children). Men can more easily run from their parental duties than women, but the solution to this dereliction is not to authorize the killing of human beings before they are born (which is a further dereliction). Rather, men must accept responsibility and be held responsible by law when necessary.

Third, the argument from gender equality seems to presuppose that pregnancy is a disability and that pregnant women need surgery (abortion) to become equal to men. This view effectively disparages women and their reproductive powers while elevating men to the paradigm of human sexuality.

“Sexual equality via abortion looks to cure biological asymmetry—the fact that women get pregnant and men don’t—by promoting the rejection of women’s bodies,” writes feminist scholar Erika Bachiochi. “Authentic equality and reproductive justice would demand something far more revolutionary: that men and society at large respect and support women in their myriad capacities and talents which include, for most women at some time in their lives, childbearing.”

Fourth, women shouldn’t need abortion to achieve social equality, professional success, and personal fulfillment. “Why is it that we assume women are incapable of dealing with the adversity of an unwanted pregnancy by any other means than that of destroying life? Is this a flattering view of women?” asked moral philosopher Janet E. Smith in her 1978 essay “Abortion as a Feminist Concern.”

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(Source: http://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/24/abortion-activist-killing-their-babies-in-abortions-allows-women-to-be-on-equal-footing-with-men/)

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