The Implications of “Pro-Choice”
22. Jun, 2011 
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Yesterday, Jonathan Last of the Wall Street Journal provided a chilling review of Mara Hvistendahl’s book, “Unnatural Selection.” In it, Hvistendahl illustrates that since the 1970′s, 163 million babies have been aborted simply for being female. Since the dawn of new scientific technology in the 70′s, in places like China, India, and Korea, parents have chosen to abort their baby girls out of a desire to have a boy. Whether by government compulsion, or traditional downy arrangements perceived financial pitfalls, amniocentesis and ultrasound technology have been used to target and destroy millions of girls.
The tragic irony here is that pro-abortion feminists, who celebrate abortion (or at least claim it as a necessary evil – whatever that means), are arguing for the mechanism by which millions of women in the womb are purposely killed for being women. A disproportionate number of women are killed by abortion in many countries around the world.
Over at the Daily Caller, we find related article where Al Gore claims that less children will lead to less pollution. Gore said, ““You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management so women can choose how many children to have, the spacing of the children.” Read: less children, less pollution! How do you achieve less children? Well that’s simple, population control through abortion. “Educating women and girls,” is the key, Gore said. In other words, show them how big families hurt the earth and surely they’ll make the right choice.
Choice.
If you are alarmed and angered by Gore’s comments, you likely also are by Hvistendahl’s points. But, many will be alarmed by Hvistendahl’s comments and not Gore’s (likely radical feminists and environmental activists). But, everyone should be alarmed by both. Every human life is valuable and no reason justifies eliminating a baby – not for “the environment,” not for wealth, not for comfort, not for a male heir, not for any reason.
Last puts it well in his Wall Street Journal Article:
“Aborting a baby because she is a girl is no different from aborting a baby because she has Down syndrome or because the mother’s “mental health” requires it. Choice is choice.”
I might add “or because an environmental activist buffoon like Al Gore says it will save the environment.”
When you allow and encourage mothers and doctors to kill children in the womb, you open the flood gates for atrocities like killing an unborn child simply because they are a female or because they breathe carbon dioxide. The choice is to kill a living person, the reasons are varried.
That is why I advocate for life and against the choice for any reason.
Pray to end abortion.
Praying is key, but activism is good too.
Tough to find a bigger buffoon than Gore.
I don’t believe I saw any quote from Gore where he said abortion is the answer. He said women can choose how many children to have. This does, in fact, include other options, like birth control (condoms, oral contraceptives, etc.), abstinence, and even a idea supported by many Catholics, natural family planning.
Or, did I miss a quote from Gore where he proposed abortions for one and all?
Hey Cindy, I didn’t know you read the blog! Thanks for checking it out! To answer your question, it’s true that the quote does not refer to abortion by name and Gore has made similar comments in the past, insisting that they are not controversial. And, he does include the methods you mention. However, words such as “family planning,” “fertility management” and “education,” while mentioned in the context of lessening the world population, have come in the modern lexicon to mean abortion. Due to Gore’s consistent support of abortion over the last 20 years, it’s pretty clear that his list of potential fixes includes abortion.
The interesting thing to me is that Gore (a father of 4) has the audacity to tell women and families (mainly in the third world) to have fewer children. No one is against educating women. But, the true education would be in methods of NFP, for it does take a fair bit of education to implement NFP well. This has been shown effective in places like Calcutta where Mother Teresa’s order still teaches NFP to impoverished peoples there with great success.