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There are a lot of things that piss me off in the world. I mean the list is long…but Geib told us to talk about something that was on our mind constantly throughout the year so let me start with this one thing. Throughout the year we’ve learned about the role women play in making history. We have all learned about incredibly courageous women who made lasting impacts on America, and most notably the suffragettes. The first feminists. These women were amazing individuals for so many reasons but what I find so interesting is the sharp contrast between the feminists of the 1800’s and the feminazi’s we see today. As the feminist movement evolved, so did the foundation of their cause. Contrary to what you all probably think, I am a believer in woman’s rights. Like Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, and Victoria Woodhull I am a strong woman who believes in equality for all. But ever since the days of Roe v. Wade our society does not deem me a feminist any longer because I passionately condemn the practice of abortion. Let’s play a game called guess the quote. “A human life is a human life and equally to be held sacred whether it be a day or a century old,” “Wives…to prevent becoming mothers…deliberately murder [children] while yet in their wombs. Can there be a more demoralized condition than this? ” Sounds like a quote from a current pro-lifer, doesn’t it? But this is actually Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate. Can you guess this next one? “While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization." I’ll bet you guessed wrong. That’s Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and incredible champion of the birth control pill, in her book //Woman and the New Race//. While discussing essay prompts in english the other day I told Mallory that if I was given the opportunity to have lunch with a historical figure I would choose Sanger and she thought it was because I wanted to scream at her. But far from it! For everything except her history as a racist, I admire Margaret Sanger. She is the reason so many women have the choice to use birth control and prevent motherhood if they are not prepared and she was actually against abortion. (side note: abortion doesn’t prevent you from being a mother, it just prevents you from being a mother to an alive baby) Sanger empowered women in her day and continues to inspire women now. It is the current feminazi’s though that have tarnished her name by including abortion under the umbrella of “reproductive rights” that she once fought so hard to ensure. Women and men alike bandwagon around slogans such as “no uterus no opinion” and defend every taken life with claims that it is the “right of the woman to choose.” It is no human being’s innate right to take the life of another, and whether or not you believe abortion is justifiable, this kind of rhetoric should be considered outrageous, but sadly it is not. Bernard Nathanson, M.D., co-founder of the pro-abortion group N ational Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League was an integral part in creating the prochoice rhetoric in the 60’s and 70’s that is still in use today. In an interview about the movement he was once so involved in he said, “I remember laughing when we made those slogans up, we were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.” He also said, “Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.” Individuals like Bernard Nathanson are far from rare. It is extremely common to see abortionists and hardcore believers of the prochoice movement turn away from their views. Norma Mccorvey, the woman behind the infamous Roe v. Wade case is now a strong pro-lifer who speaks out against the lawyers who manipulated her into the role of Jane Roe. Ms. Mccorvery is hated by the prochoice community for turning away from this new “feminist cause.” This is not the America I wish to grow old in. In lieu of the disgusting case of the abortionist Kermit Gosnell, I feel I have to mention what is now referred to “infanticide.” This term was actually coined by an original suffragette Susan B. Anthony while talking about the evils of society. There are abortion clinics run like that in Philadelphia where babies who are born alive are tossed aside after their necks are snipped by so-called doctors. And yet if you disagree with these horrific practices you are somehow denying the rights of your womanhood. This description is taken from an article I was reading about saline abortions this weekend, by a woman who has performed many. “The saline, a salt solution, is injected into the woman’s sac and the baby swallows it. The baby starts dying a slow, violent death. The mother feels everything, and many times it is at this point when she realizes that she really has a live baby inside of her, because the baby starts fighting violently for his or her life. He’s just fighting inside because he’s burning.” Babies are being sucked out of their mother’s womb, their heads are being crushed, they’re being injected with poison, and their necks are being snipped, all in the name of a twisted sense of entitlement for women. Human life is being torn apart limb by limb, blended up, and ended thoughtlessly and I am the one considered to be anti-woman. What about equal rights for the unborn woman? This is not the America I wish to grow old in. I have seen two babies brought into this this world. Take their first breath. Scream their first scream. I have nurtured and loved these children as if they were my own, but I am not considered a feminist. Mr. Geib gave hypothetical examples of speech topics in class and one of them was that Roe v. Wade would be overturned and abortion would be made illegal. I don’t know if that is my ideal. In the America I wish to grow old in-- sure abortion would be illegal-- but it is much more than that. My dream is for the hearts and minds of the American people to be softened to the reality of abortion for like we have seen all year in class, a law doesn’t change anything if the hearts of the people being governed by these laws are not also changed. But at the very least I want to see more women casting off their fears of backtracking on the “successes of the women’s movement” and realize that the women who first started the movement cherished life and would be horrified by what our country has made legal. I have male friends who express their prolife views to me in hushed voices for fear of backlash from any female ear around. This is not the America I wish to grow old in! If I have a son one day and he is against abortion, I fear he will be labeled misogynistic and close-minded. This is not the America I wish to grow old in. In the America I wish to grow old in fetuses will be protected not only by law but by human compassion. In the America I wish to grow old in neither women or men will not be shamed for their prolife views. In the America I wish to grow old in birth control for women will be distributed like candy so that every woman has the choice not to become a mother. In the America I wish to grow old in I will never have to worry that my daughter is at risk of being talked into an abortion. In the America I wish to grow old in I will save babies. And in the words Mother Teresa “"I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.”

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