There is not much to say about the Women's March that hasn't already been said, good or bad. Most of what I have seen from both sides has been vulgar and not worth listening to. I'll get to that another post.
What I will say now is that I completely agree with treating women with respect and honor and as equal to men in rights and protection under the law. I fully support the right of people to protest and speak out against abuse and aggression. I have no problem with speaking truth to power and making sure the underrepresented are represented properly in law and culture.
Which is why I support the rights of the unborn.
So much has been said mocking the women marching around the world. So much bile has been spewed from their opponents, someone has to stand up and actually pick on a principle not just on people.
These women are people, and people don't deserve abuse. As opponents to their ideals, we don't need to make jokes about their weight. We don't have to make sandwich jokes. We don't have to mock their poorly spelled signs. We should be better than that. We should be mature enough to hit where it counts: right in the hypocrisy.
They claim to be marching for equal rights. But are they?
Access to abortion is not a "right", it is a privilege. A right is something every human being is created with. A privilege is something bestowed by elites upon those they have power over. The privilege of abortion is only given to women, by lawmakers interested in keeping women voters in lock step.
Men have no such privilege. This is hardly equality. These women are not honestly concerned with equality, they are interested in keeping their privilege. The politicians who grant them the privilege are not concerned about equality either, they just want votes.
Abortion is not just a privilege that women have that men do not, it is a privilege they have over very very young people. I will refrain from using emotionally charged words like "baby" and I will simply call them what they are: people, persons, individuals.
Far too many of these women are claiming they should have the privilege of murdering a specific group of individuals simply based on the age of those individuals.
I have heard the arguments before: persons in the womb have no self-awareness. Neither does a sleeping person, or a person in a coma. We do not murder the comatose or sleeping and justify it by saying "they weren't self aware so it was okay." Why do we do this with pre-born people? Do we even know how self-aware they are?
"Oh, but they aren't really alive." So you mean to tell me that two living cells came together and started multiplying into some sort of undead/unliving vampiric lump of tissue? This is what you consider a person before they escape the trappings of the womb?
"Oh, but they aren't people." By all objective standards, a fetus is an individual with unique human DNA and as they grow, miniature human organs. There is nothing unhuman about a person before they are born. They simply don't look like adults.
"Oh, but they are trespassing in the womb." No. You put them there. You made a choice to create the circumstances where this person is now dependent on you for sustenance until they self-evict from the womb.
Let's say you owned a dock, opened it to the public, and kept it in disrepair. Let's say someone fell off the dock and into the water. You have the ability to save them but you don't. Instead you let them drown. Are you morally culpable?
Let's say you actually pushed them into the water, then sat there and watched them drown. In both instances you would be culpable for murder, one count involuntary, the other voluntary. By your actions you put those people in positions of dependence on you.
When a women places herself in a situation where she might get pregnant, by having sex, she is creating a circumstance where another person can come into existence. The individual who takes up residence inside of her was placed there by her actions. This is not trespass. This individual should not be punished for her actions.
Yes, less than 1% to 3% (depending on who you ask) of abortions are performed on rape victims. Rape is a crime, it is a violation of the NAP, it is abhorrent and disgusting. There is a great amount of pain and vulnerability involved in rape, more than I, as a man, could ever understand.
I do not claim that women who have been raped are in any way culpable for their rape. I don't care what she is wearing, I don't even really care if she was drunk. She is a victim and is not morally culpable or responsible for the life that is within her.
However, the person in the womb is not responsible for the rape either. The death penalty should not be carried out on an innocent party.
In the case of a woman pregnant by rape, the rapist is the party responsible for the individual in the womb. The rapist should be made to pay all medical expenses, the cost of the delivery, and the entire cost of adopting the child out. They should pay further restitution to the rape victim and the child up to a limit determined by a judge.
"But it's my body, my choice." Yes, you have ownership of your body, but they too, have ownership of theirs. You do not have the right to treat them as property for your disposal any more than a man should have the right to treat women as property at his disposal.
If you feel that somehow your age gives you some sort of privilege over the unborn, you are no better the chauvinist pigs who feel their sex gives them privilege over women.
Those who support the privilege of murdering the inconvenient are no better morally speaking than those who supported keeping slavery legal.
Slavery supporters in this nation used color as an excuse to deny rights to an entire class of individuals. Those who support keeping abortion legal use age and dependency as an excuse to deny rights to an entire class of individuals.
Women of the marches tell me this: should individuals be denied their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness simply because they are different looking than you?
If your answer is yes, than you are no better than the creeps you protest against.