It's All About Choice...REALLY

H/T SayAnything

Chinese victims of forced late-term abortion fight back

Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father.
But the Peking duck and liquor weren't enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang's wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and taken to a clinic, where, she says, her baby was killed by injection while still inside her.

Since the entirety of the pro-choice movement is horror stories from poor single women, here's a good one...

"Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach," says Jin Yani, a shy, petite woman with a long ponytail. "It was very painful. ... It was all very rough."
Some 30 years after China decreed a general limit of one child per family, resentment still brews over the state's regular and sometimes brutal intrusion into intimate family matters. Not only are many second pregnancies aborted, but even to have one's first child requires a license.
Seven years after the dead baby was pulled from her body with forceps, Jin remains traumatized and, the couple and a doctor say, unable to bear children. Yang and Jin have made the rounds of government offices pleading for restitution — to no avail.
This year, they took the unusual step of suing the family planning agency. The judges ruled against them, saying Yang and Jin conceived out of wedlock. Local family planning officials said Jin consented to the abortion. The couple's appeal to a higher court is pending.

Surely, since the most important thing in the world is for a woman to be able to choose whether or not she keeps her child, we'll start hearing from the pro-choice crowd about this travesty. Any second now...

It's coming I'm sure...

Feminists Abandon Women-Again

They're there over a 50 cent an hour difference between men and women's wages, but when it comes to something like civil rights...not so much.

Can't sweat the small stuff you know?

Academia's fixation on cultural sensitivity is changing the debate around female genital mutilation, with a growing number of professors and women's rights activists becoming hesitant to condemn the practice.

That's bad enough. "Hesitant to condemn" means they have to think long and hard before condemning non-consentual mutilation of women...by men. But it gets worse.

Where feminists rallied against the operation from the pages of Ms. magazine in the 1970s, today's critics are infinitely more cautious, with most suggesting that the Western world butt out until Muslim African communities are ready to reconsider what they are doing to their daughters.
The shift in attitudes about the practice-- which in the worst of cases involves the carving out of a woman's clitoris and inner labia and can cause lifelong urinary tract infections, sterility and even death -- comes at a time when high-profile victims of the operation such as writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali and model Waris Dirie, both Somalis, have launched very public campaigns against the practice.
"There are good reasons within the society for the operation to continue, but these are cultural reasons. They are not scientific ones," says Prof. Boddy, author of Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan.

"There are good reasons for it to continue." Like what? Please, enlighten us?

Where once feminists railed against every act of the patriarchy...now they defend the patriarchy is truly oppressive women in ways beyond what the feminists ever complained about.

Remember that the next time a feminist talks about inequality.