Blaming Feminists for Advancing Human Rights
Okay. Go ahead, rightwing pundits and pundettes (and I mean you, Margaret Wente). Blame Feminists for advancing human rights in the west - we can take it.
Indeed, it's interesting in these new millennium days how desperately even rightwing pundits and pundettes who may claim to believe in limited (which we essentially have, in medical terms) abortion rights (although never for themselves, personally, oh God no) are driven to make the point, however false it may be, that there are plenty of bad women out there using abortion as a method of birth control.
Which sounds to me like they don't really believe women should have abortion rights at all, or, at least, SOME women shouldn't...
Still, I suppose if you think women are essentially bad, you would believe that about us (conflict of interest/full disclosure - I am a Feminist) wouldn't you. In any case, asking them if they think such bad women should have babies instead, they really don't have a consistent answer. Some say, "yes", some say, "no", some say, "maybe". So really, I get the impression they just don't think there should be a choice at all, in spite of what they claim - that government (big bad government, which, in areas NOT involving women's rights they believe shouldn't be reaching into our, I mean, their lives at all) should take away the choice. Or, at least, take it away from all those bad women out there.
Because choice is hard and it's even harder if everybody has it - especially for rightwing pundits and pundettes. And it's xtra hard for rightwing pundettes where all those bad women out there are concerned because bad women make choices that hurt good men on the right - and ALL men on the right are good if you're a rightwing pundette because every "women bad" argument must have an equal and opposite "men good" argument to balance it.
But don't take my word for it - it's all in the rightwing pundit and pundette Bible, Atlas Shrugged, the harlequin romance of the philosophy known as Objectifyism.
