Women Support Bush - Feminism Is Dying
By Isaiah Z. Sterrett (10/01/04)
THE PAST FEW months have not been kind to feminists. There was John Kerry’s stunning admission that life begins at conception, followed by several additional stories, each of which punched a new hole in feminist propaganda.
That Sen. Kerry believes life begins when a man’s sperm fertilizes a woman’s egg is commendable. This position may mark the first time in his career that he’s actually flip-flopped for the better; Kerry opposed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and has been a reliable pro-abortion legislator for years. Only when he began to traverse the flyover states did he wise-up—not about abortion, but about American politics.
It’s simply a fact that most Americans oppose abortion. That’s why liberals had to take it to the Supreme Court in 1973, which in turn had to hallucinate a constitutional right to abortion-on-demand. If state legislatures, and thus the citizens of the various states, had wanted abortion to be legal, it would have been legal. That’s what democracy is. Roe v. Wade is proof that abortion is not popular with the majority of Americans, and for John Kerry to come out in opposition to abortion is further proof.
Tellingly, Kerry was not alone in his remarks. Teresa, whose job at the Democratic Convention was to rally feminists, said that she believes abortion is "stopping the process of life," adding, "I don't view abortion as just a nothing."
Around the same time of the Kerry family’s revelation came the magnificent pictures of fetuses in the womb taken by the British obstetrician Stewart Campbell. His photographs show babies smiling and crying, and actually moving their limbs at just eight-weeks-old. Frighteningly, eight weeks is well within the first trimester of pregnancy, so a baby of that age is still fair game for abortionists.
The principal feminist buzz-word when it comes to abortion has long been “viability,” but Campbell’s work should permanently discredit that argument.
Sensing these new problems for feminism, Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, recently declared a “state of emergency” for feminists, sparking a national yawn. NOW, you may remember, is the “non-partisan organization,” according to its website, that in 2002 endorsed Gray Davis, Nancy Pelosi, Anna Eshoo, Maxine Waters, Jerry Nadler, Charles Rangel, and Rosa DeLauro.
Gandy is right to be alarmed. Feminism has lost almost all of its appeal, and the disgusting march in Washington last April led by the movement’s leaders shows that. It’s one thing to oppose or support abortion philosophically, but when thousands of angry Steinem-worshippers invade our nation’s capitol, most of us shudder.
The march was meant to illustrate just how many women still call themselves feminists. Instead, it illustrated just how wrong feminism is. One feminist writer who attended the event proudly reported that protesters included “pregnant women for choice.” Maybe carrying a baby and shrieking the virtues of abortion is admired in some circles, but most Americans are sickened by it. Any pregnant woman who took part in those festivities is not beginning motherhood on an overly positive note.
With the march well behind us, now we find out that—brace yourself—men and women are different. Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, says that "[w]omen are different than men, not only psychologically (but) physiologically,” and, further, “I think we need to understand those differences."
As the AP reports: “DeAngelis, who became the journal's first female editor in 1999, says she has made it a mission to publish only research in which data are broken down by sex unless it involves a disease that affects just men or women.”
I personally didn’t need a medical journal to tell me that men and women are different, but it’s nice to know that scientists now admit it. That puts medical professionals on the same team as most Americans, and leaves feminists absolutely no support. According to DeAngelis’ studies, to accept feminism today is to ignore basic biology.
It’s not quite accurate to argue that feminism has been buried forever, but certainly its days are numbered. With the image of innocent children being slaughtered in Russia lingering in our minds, and with the memory of America’s own children being robbed of their parents on 9/11 still fresh, it’s hard to desire “liberation” from the clutches of the home.
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