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The Outrage of Choice

February 4, 2010 by Gerard M. Nadal

The pro-choicers are as frustrated at Mamma Tebow’s story breaking their tackle as these fellows in the photo would seem to be with her son. They are terrified that the ad appeals to…CHOICE! What if after seeing the ad Americans choose NOT to have abortions? What if greater numbers of Americans choose having babies? What if Roe is never overturned, but becomes anachronistic?

The fear among the pro-choicers is palpable. There is only one acceptable choice. It isn’t life. These evil people have overplayed their hand this time. People are asking what the problem is in Mrs. Tebow having chosen life?

The problem is that abortion and contraception for the young are not ends in themselves. They have been the means used by radical feminists to drive a wedge between men and women, to wreck the ‘oppressive’ institutions of marriage and motherhood, to corrode the very idea of covenantal love.

Men and fatherhood have come in for brutal broadsides from this gang. Imagine that a father has no say in the murder of his own child. Let that one really sink in for a moment. Abortion spits on fatherly love and the dignity of fatherhood by subjugating men to women’s whim enshrined as law. Was that the ‘equality’ so sought after by the feminists?

How effective has it all been? Listen to any advertisement where someone is the butt of a joke and almost always it is the male-dumb and clueless.

Look at sit-coms on TV. Who are the fools? Nearly universally, the fathers and the single men.

And then there is a 50% divorce rate. Far too many embittered mothers and fathers poison their sons and daughters.

The disintegration of the family, of society has been stunning. Fear is the reaction to a woman who celebrated the choice she made: Life!

Why? Against the backdrop of a crumbling civilization, why?

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Posted in Abortion | Tagged Abortion, Choice, Feminism, Tim Tebow | 7 Comments

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  1. on February 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM BHG

    Excellent point. Makes me wish they had Tim’s father in the mix somehow. He obviously supported his wife’s decision. By, the way, how many successful athletes, both on and off the field, come from single parent households? I wonder if Tiger Woods pathology doesn’t derive from his parents’ marital problems?


  2. on February 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM Siarlys Jenkins

    Now you’re starting to talk like me!

    “What if Roe is never overturned, but becomes anachronistic?”

    Precisely. As long as the legal principle allows for individual choice, without intervention by the police power of the state, any woman is free to CHOOSE to carry her pregnancy to term. It doesn’t matter what some rabid pseudo-feminist WANTS her to do. She has an individual CHOICE in the matter.

    As long as those who call themselves “pro-life” stop trying to invoke the criminal law to do their work for them, everyone has access to the public square. Let those who can make the most persuasive case prevail!

    (I do think you exaggerate the influence of pseudo-feminists “to wreck the ‘oppressive’ institutions of marriage and motherhood, to corrode the very idea of covenantal love.” There are such people, and they did have something to do with why a rather simple conservative legal ruling became so controversial, but they don’t dominate much of anything politically. Still, what does it matter? If Roe is untouched, but every woman chooses life, I’m satisfied, and they can go sulk.)

    I said that in 2005:

    http://siarlysjenkins.blogspot.com/2005/09/choosing-life-thanks-to-roe-v-wade.html


  3. on February 6, 2010 at 2:01 AM BHG

    SJ

    You cannot get governmment out of abortion. You want unlicensed physicians performing them? Drug manufacturers making and selling Lord knows what kind of anesthesia/analgesics/contraceptives?
    What legal principle? Read Hadley Arkes’ Natural Rights and the Right to Choose. Another favorite is Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Transformation in Christ. Enjoy!


  4. on February 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM Magister Christianus

    “Listen to any advertisement where someone is the butt of a joke and almost always it is the male-dumb and clueless.

    Look at sit-coms on TV. Who are the fools? Nearly universally, the fathers and the single men.”

    I have been saying this for some years now, but your connection with the abortionists is right on the money. Just to tive one example, I could never stand the show “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Never has there been a bigger sap of a character. Everyone…men and boys, but also women and girls…need to see strong, valiant males in the literature and stories of our day, and they need to see the same in their homes, their schools, and their neighborhoods.


  5. on February 6, 2010 at 8:46 AM Magister Christianus

    Regarding the utterly illogical response of Planned Parenthood to Tebow’s ad, see my post http://bedlamorparnassus.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-not-respecting-womans-decision.html.


  6. on February 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM Siarlys Jenkins

    BHG: When did I say I wanted “government out of abortion” as a matter of principal in any and all ways? I want the POLICE power of the state, the criminal law, out of abortion, which at present it is.

    It is present in the third trimester, and rightly so, there might even be too many loopholes in the laws regarding the third trimester, when abortion should be ONLY to save the life or health of the mother. I’m also open to the idea that the boundary between second and third trimester is an artificial and outdated one, and that it should be moved back some. Once the fetus is neurologically developed to the point of measurable self-awareness, such as producing EEG, and/or capable of being metabolically independent of the mother, all the rationale in Roe v. Wade concerning the third trimester should apply.

    But of course ANY medical procedure should be performed by a licensed physician. That is not specific to abortion, that is a general principle. And don’t let Gerard’s semantic distinction that in his mind an abortion is not a medical procedure be used to create a loophole for unlicensed personnel to perform what is a procedure and is invasive.

    If I were a vegetarian, I would not therefore oppose inspection of meatpacking plants to insure sanitary conditions, on the ground that carnivores deserve to die of salmonella. Any invasive procedure should be regulated in a manner that is generally applicable, to insure safe and sanitary procedure.

    What legal principle? Your question lacks a context. Explain what you mean, and I will attempt to answer.


  7. on February 24, 2010 at 3:04 PM Alice

    In an off-topic observation, if that picture comes from either the ’06 or ’07 Auburn-Florida games, those guys probably aren’t all that frustrated with Tebow. We beat them both years. 🙂

    War Eagle!



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