The issue of abortion is not new and it's not radical. To abort is to kill and whether its done on the inside of a woman or the outside, death is part of our world.
But the idea that one human has more rights than another ... we've got names for that. It is sexists if we say a man has more rights than a woman. Or it's called racists if we say that a white man has more rights than a colored man. To say that, a woman has more rights than an unborn human growing in right womb, that's called feminist.
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I love your central point that racism is the belief that white people have more rights than black people - that sexism is the belief that men have more rights than women. There is a terrible inequity at work in the abortion industry and the refusal to recognize the most basic human life as a real child. However, you dilute your argument by equating this inequity with feminism. The strongest Feminists I know are also the most outspoken for life.
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My sister and I have had many discussions about how militant-unredeemed feminism has hurt women through a rejection of traditional roles. "We are just as good as men" - is a faulty rallying cry. The result has been to dismiss, marginalize, and ridicule many 'feminine' qualities, skills, and abilities. "You'll never be a man..." is still the glass ceiling that this kind of feminism rails against.
But Christian feminism - 'Jesus' feminism - recognizes women as equal expressions of the imagio dei - equal partners in God's kingdom work. God imbues his sons and daughters with gifts to transform his world - not limited to certain spheres - but everyone individually using their gift to glorify their father in Heaven. God's daughters are not defined by their relationship to an earthly man - but by their relationship to Jesus.
Honestly, I think we agree more than we disagree. And okay...I didn't mean to get off on a tangent about 'feminism' per se. I just don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water, as it were. I do not see 'feminism' as an inherently bad thing - though like every idea it can be distorted to a harmful purpose.
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