A problem with pro-choice
Mary Lingwall’s July 24th column, “Who is Choosing Pro-life,” was so full of errors and faulty information that I could barely get through the ignorant drabble without offering some corrections to her extremely skewed views.
First, Lingwall impressed me with her originality by taking a shot at Sarah Palin. Surely this is not the “original thought” that she has been learning in her prestigious Plan II classes? Also, while exercising her regurgitation of the national media’s senseless personal attacks on Palin, Lingwall asserted that conservative women — or better yet, women that chose to be pro-life — cannot qualify themselves as feminists.
In actuality, the original feminists, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were staunchly pro-life. In fact, they even went as far as calling abortion “infanticide” and “child murder.” However, if Anthony and Stanton were alive today, Lingwall and other radicals would probably toss their incredible successes alongside Palin’s by labeling them as “outspoken suppressor[s] of women’s reproductive rights.”
In addition, I find it amusing that Lingwall was so quick to defend Planned Parenthood’s illegality in the Lila Rose incident as simply exhibiting “loyalty to doctor-patient confidentiality.” Rather than defending misconduct, maybe Lingwall should spend more time researching the roots of Planned Parenthood and its founder Margaret Sanger.
Among other things, she and anyone else open-minded enough to do the research will find horrifying racism. Sanger thought African-Americans and other immigrants were “human weeds,” “‘reckless breeders,” and “‘spawning ... human beings who never should have been born.” Also, Sanger commented on the secret agenda of Planned Parenthood by stating, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
Further, Lingwall tries to assert that the abortion issue is not about life, but rather about defining a woman’s “worth and purpose.” However, pro-lifers want nothing more than to have the focus stay on life — it is the pro-choice advocates that try to shift the debate. This is why they try to utilize the word “choice,” but never actually talk about what is being chosen. Really, though, sit back and ask yourself, “What is the woman choosing in getting an abortion? What is the alternative to keeping the pregnancy?”
Finally, to answer the question posed in the title of the article, a majority of Americans are now choosing to be pro-life according to a recent Gallup Poll. In addition, according to the same Gallup Poll, a majority of women are now branding themselves as pro-life Americans.
So, Mary, it seems that you and other radical feminists are in the minority, and you have your pro-death president, his radical policies, and your backwards desire to be a man to thank for that. There is nothing like tangible extremism to engender true social change.
Daniel Earnest
UT finance junior
