I believe that similar rhetoric, that attempts to trivialize pregnancy and the decision facing women considering an abortion, from those that support the Pro-Choice movement, is just as deplorable and does not help the movement in maintaining credibility and broad public support. What I find to be particularly disgusting is the use of the terms “fetus fetishists” and “fetus fetishizers”.
This follows a post from yesterday supporting choice, which starts like this:
As a male, whether to have an abortion is a decision that I will never be faced with. It is also a decision that I would hope no one would be faced with.
Were you surprised that this is a male writing? Nope, us neither.
Now, since we at Birth Pangs weren't named, we can't be absolutely sure that that finger is wagging our way. But we do use the terms 'fetus fetishist' and 'fetus fetishizing' and variants quite a bit here.
So, we thought we'd have a go at straightening this fellow out.
First, this fellow should be told that the authors at Birth Pangs have given birth to -- um, I ran out of fingers -- more than ten actual babies. In fact, the author of Why Stop at Alcohol? was actually preggers (and a little pissed off too, evidently) at the time of writing.
The author of this excoriation of forced abortion is a mother several times over.
Our infrequent author, but thankfully more frequent commenter, BLANCHE, is a mother and a grandmother.
And our often scathing, but often lyrical deBeauxOs is also a mother.
The present author, who took some exception to one woman a minute dying of pregnancy-related causes, while not a mother, considered abortion twice. And decided in favour of if both times.
An accusation of TRIVIALIZING pregnancy or abortion lobbed at us is a bit rich, yes?
He ends his little snit with this:
I wish to disassociate myself completely from the use of such terms.
Consider it done. (Can you believe the fucking arrogance? And this guy is on Progressive Bloggers? Go figger.)
(First published at Birth Pangs.)
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