Right to Life Hates Women [View all]

[McCamy Taylor]

I have suspected it for years. When Right to Life’s rank and file are interviewed, they do two things. First, they tell us how sweet and innocent the fetus is. Then, they tell us how selfish, lazy and just plain evil the woman seeking the abortion is and how she must be forced to carry the fruits of her sin in order to teach her a lesson. They do not always use those words, but this is the message they send. Women who have sex are sinful. Pregnancy is God’s Way of punishing that sin. If you love God, you must make sure the women are punished—

I can think of a number of reasons why some folks would like to see mothers-to-be punished. Those who felt abandoned or unloved as children have a grudge against the female sex---even if they happen to be women themselves. Since they can not go back in time and force their own mothers to love them---or rather, make them feel loved, for I suspect that most of the women really did love their children, the kids simply did not realize it----since they can not go back in time to change the past, they do the next best thing. They seek to control other women now, by denying them reproductive freedom. They also deny them an equal wage for equal labor, even though lower wages for women are a major cause of childhood poverty in this country. They deride those who are attempting to raise their children in single parent families with public assistance, calling them “welfare queens.” When women are the victims of the hate crime known as “rape”, they insist that the woman “lead him on”---because they know in their hearts that Eve is still chomping on that apple and still leading Adam into sin. And if a woman becomes pregnant as a result of an act of rape, she had damn well better give birth to that baby that was part of “God’s plan”---making God an accessory to rape.

A few days ago, we saw proof that Right to Life hates women. All women, not just mothers-to-be. Because Planned Parenthood offers low cost birth control and elective abortions, the Susan G. Komen charity decided that over one hundred thousand poor women should be denied breast cancer screening. Yes, I know that decision makes no sense. But if you hate women, then you see nothing wrong with punishing the entire sex for the “crimes” of a few. If you are a member of Right to Life, the deaths of a few poor women from breast cancer are an "acceptable loss" in the war to control women.

I am waiting for the day when a group like Right to Life gives Planed Parenthood a huge donation, with the money earmarked for contraception only. Prevent those unwanted pregnancies and the U.S. will have the low, low, low abortion rate of Denmark, where contraception is readily available to women of all ages and everyone is encouraged to use it. I think I will be waiting a long time. Because Right to Life’s real goal is not ending abortion. Its members want to punish women. And so they quibble about which birth control method is slightly “like” an abortion. They fume if poor women have access to birth control (and nine months later, they fume when poor women ask for help raising the child they were forced to carry). They call women on the left “whores” and “witches”---

A little part of me feels very sorry for them. Their childhoods must have been hell. But we all suffer in some way. We become compassionate adults when we stop seeing the world through the eyes of a needy child and realize that everyone suffers and everyone is needy.